--- title: PowerDNS Reviews meta_title: 'PowerDNS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 13 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how PowerDNS works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.7 review_count: 13 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-09-22' parent_category: name: Hosting url: https://www.g2.com/categories/hosting --- # PowerDNS Reviews **Vendor:** PowerDNS **Category:** [Managed DNS Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/managed-dns-solutions) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 **AI Enabled:** This product embeds AI to enhance or extend its core functionality. ## About PowerDNS PowerDNS offers open source DNS software, services, and support. ## PowerDNS Reviews ### 1. Great Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Learn About W. | Fashion Model, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2022 **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. **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? **What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving e-commerce problems. I have benefit from one upping my current standards by using this platform and model. ### 2. Years of reliability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Franco T. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2022 **What do you like best about PowerDNS?** The flexibility and ease 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. **What do you dislike about PowerDNS?** The lack 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. **What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?** My company uses PowerDNS to manage DNS for a huge number of domains (in the number of ten of thousands). PowerDNS allows to do it in a reliable and flexible way. ### 3. Excellent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aidil A. | Senior System Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerDNS?** Able to handle DNSSEC and integration with WHMCS DNS Manager plugin. **What do you dislike about PowerDNS?** Duplicate record - although the resource record already exists, the same record is added again, hence giving a duplicate record error. User still able to add new zone without NS records. **Recommendations to others considering PowerDNS:** Try and experience it yourselves. Although it may be a bit hassle to configure it for the first-timer, later on it will become clearer. If you want to have DNS service only, no other unneeded services (unneeded services such as email, FTP, file sharing - while web server and database are required if setting up PowerDNS with database and web-based frontend) then you should consider PowerDNS. **What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?** At the time, I was using WHM as a DNS manager and was looking for DNSSEC functionality. 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 found PowerDNS does have DNSSEC functionality and is able to transfer the signature to slave NS as well. WHM now supports DNSSEC functionality but is incompatible with DNS Clustering. Furthermore, WHM includes all unnecessary stuff and services, whereas we just want to have DNS management only. Obviously, WHM is meant for hosting websites. ### 4. One of the best Open source DNS Server Software. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhisek k. | Security Lead Expert, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2021 **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. **What do you dislike about PowerDNS?** It has all the features to manage the DNS Services so no negative points on that. **What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was working in net4 India and where we did successful migration from one PowerDNS to other powerDNS which was super easy. ### 5. PowerDNS have a availability for my public dns service now nipa.cloud use powerdns in 3 years **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Natthaphon P. | Cloud Operations Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerDNS?** I like PowerDNS for build my dns service and i use dnsdist integration load balance dns service **What do you dislike about PowerDNS?** I not have dislike powerdns because powerdns good open source **What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?** load balancing dns ### 6. Robust DNS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerDNS?** Robust to use and fast response for queries **What do you dislike about PowerDNS?** There is no sync between master and slave on deletion. I wrote custom script to handle this scenario **What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?** After migrating from Windows DNS server, no delay in response, fast sync ### 7. A DNS server for hosting your domains **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yiorgos [George] A. | DevOps Engineer, Financial Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2020 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **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. **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. **What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've run internal DNS services with PowerDNS and implemented split-brain setups. It can be the best choice for such environments, especially coupled with unbound and / or dnsdist ### 8. Simple to manage, easy to work with and reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerDNS?** It is really straight forward and easy to work with **What do you dislike about PowerDNS?** There isn't anything in particular that I don't like about this product **Recommendations to others considering PowerDNS:** As I already stated, it's easy to use and it's straight forward. Great product **What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have internal and external infrastructures and we use it for all our DNS services ### 9. Easy and Simple to implement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerDNS?** Easy and simple to implement. And scalable. **What do you dislike about PowerDNS?** Power admin GUI can be more attractive and informative. **Recommendations to others considering PowerDNS:** Always prefer PowerDNS **What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?** In-house recursor for ISP ### 10. Excellent **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 25, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerDNS?** EXcellent chart and bar to analyze in and out DNS and lots of tools and script **What do you dislike about PowerDNS?** sometimes for finding some special commands we need to spend lots of time and needs more help documents. **What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was working in an IPS that sometimes we faced with lots of queries. with the PowerDNS, I found that we have a problem with resolve DNS form client-side. ### 11. Easy to use, feature rich, powered by MySQL **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nabarun C. | Site Reliability Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerDNS?** Feature rich. REST APIs are easy to use. Open source **What do you dislike about PowerDNS?** REST API documents are very hard to understand and not properly organized. Looks like it is written for people who are already experts. **What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Internal DNS. Easy to setup. ### 12. Supremely Powerful DNS Server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerDNS?** Extremely performant and easily configured **What do you dislike about PowerDNS?** Needs some SQL knowledge to get the best **Recommendations to others considering PowerDNS:** Make sure the backend database is appropriately configured **What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Huge amount of domains with often changing records. PowerDNS made automated record modifications and creation a simple task and far out performed the previous solution. ### 13. The best DNS server thingy available today! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rutik S. | Inside Sales cum Client Engagement, Professional Training & Coaching, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerDNS?** The ease with which you are allowed to create a server login and manage the downloads is pretty good. I’ve loved it from the very first go. It’s pretty neat, and I recommend it to be used by everyone who’s into technology and website management. **What do you dislike about PowerDNS?** Honestly, there’s nothing that I dislike about this. It’s smooth and the flawless use makes it more awesome. **What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerDNS has allowed me to get into the websites’ DNA very easily and quickly. 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