remote-backups.com migrates to self-hosted DNS for greater resilience and independence

remote-backups.com today announced the completion of its migration to self-hosted authoritative DNS infrastructure, removing the company's dependency on a third-party DNS provider and placing full control over domain resolution in-house.

Why this matters

DNS is the first step in every connection a customer makes to the service. When that step relies on an external provider, any outage, policy change, or rate limit at that provider becomes an outage for customers. Self-hosted authoritative name servers eliminate that dependency entirely.

The migration gives the operations team direct control over TTLs, propagation timing, and zone configuration. Changes that previously required coordination with a third-party interface now take effect immediately under internal tooling.

What changed

The company now operates its own authoritative name servers across multiple independent locations. Redundancy is handled at the infrastructure level rather than delegated to a provider's uptime guarantees. Zone data stays internal.

The migration was completed with zero downtime. All services, including backup scheduling, restore operations, and the customer dashboard, continued operating normally throughout.

What did not change

Customer-facing hostnames, connection endpoints, and credentials are unchanged. No action is required from existing customers.

Broader direction

This migration reflects a consistent engineering principle at remote-backups.com: own the stack, control the failure modes. The same reasoning drives the company's use of self-hosted Proxmox Backup Server infrastructure rather than relying on third-party storage APIs. Fewer external dependencies means fewer external failure modes.

For more information, visit remote-backups.com.