PowerDNS Reviews 2025: Details, Pricing, & Features

LW

Learn About W.

Fashion Model

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/24/2022

"Great Platform"

5/5

What do you like best about PowerDNS?

I like how you can adjust the needs according to your business needs. I appreciate the reviews provided. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

I wish there were more softwares working with this platform. However, there's already quite a few available. What if there were more guidance through g2? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Franco T.

CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/14/2022

"Years of reliability"

5/5

What do you like best about PowerDNS?

The flexibility and easy of management of MySQL backend.

And the reliability: we have used PowerDNS for a number of years to manage our DNS infrastructure, and I can't remember any issue due to PowerDNS itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

The lacking of some kind of integrated management interface. It's manageable using a number of external tools, but sometimes an integrated web interface would be useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AA

Aidil A.

Senior System Administrator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/4/2021

"Excellent"

5/5

What do you like best about PowerDNS?

Able to handle DNSSEC and integration with WHMCS DNS Manager plugin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

Duplicate record - although the resouce record already exist, the same record added again hence giving duplicate record error.

User still able to add new zone without NS records Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PowerDNS:

Try and experience it yourselves. Although it may be a bit hassle to configure it for the firstimer, later on it will become clearer. If want to have DNS service only, no other unneeded services (unneeded services such as email, FTP, filesharing - while webserver and database are required if setting up PowerDNS with database and web-based frontend) then should consider PowerDNS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

At the time was using WHM as DNS manager and was looking for DNSSEC function. DNSSEC was not supported in WHM although using BIND as its back-end. There was a need to have DNSSEC at that time so we've found PowerDNS do have DNSSEC function and able to transfer the signature to slave NS as well. WHM do now support DNSSEC function but incompatible with DNS Clustering. Furthermore, WHM includes all unnecessary stuff and services whereas we just want to have DNS management only. Obviously WHM meant for hosting websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AK

Abhisek k.

Security Lead Expert

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/1/2021

"One of the best Open source DNS Server Software."

5/5

What do you like best about PowerDNS?

1. Open Source

2. It's a Support cluster database.

3. easy to manage like backup n all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

It has all the features to manage the DNS Services so no negative points on that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NP

Natthaphon P.

Cloud Operations Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/15/2021

"PowerDNS have a availability for my public dns service now nipa.cloud use powerdns in 3 years"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PowerDNS?

I like PowerDNS for build my dns service and i use dnsdist integration load balance dns service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

I not have dislike powerdns because powerdns good open source Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/11/2021

"Robust DNS"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PowerDNS?

Robust to use and fast response for queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

There is no sync between master and slave on deletion. I wrote custom script to handle this scenario Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Yiorgos [George] A.

DevOps Engineer

Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/5/2020

"A DNS server for hosting your domains"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PowerDNS?

The fact that it can get input from different sources. I've used it extensively with sqlite but have tested it with other inputs too. MySQL and high availability setup was intriguing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

Sometimes the REST API is not well understood by me. I needed stuff to be done via the REST API and it was not possible / implemented, although it seemed the functionality was there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/4/2020

"Simple to manage, easy to work with and reliable"

5/5

What do you like best about PowerDNS?

It is really straight forward and easy to work with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

There isn't anything in particular that I don't like about this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AI

Verified User in Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/10/2021

"Easy and Simple to implement"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PowerDNS?

Easy and simple to implement. And scallable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

Power admin gui can be more attractive and informative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AI

Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/25/2020

"Excellent"

4/5

What do you like best about PowerDNS?

EXcellent chart and bar to analyze in and out DNS and lots of tools and script Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

sometimes for finding some special commands we need to spend lots of time and needs more help documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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