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PowerDNS

A DNS server, written in C++ and runs on most Unix derivatives
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What is PowerDNS?

It features a large number of different backends ranging from simple BIND style zonefiles to relational databases and load balancing/failover algorithms. A DNS recursor is provided as a separate program.
PowerDNS is a tool in the DNS Management category of a tech stack.
PowerDNS is an open source tool with 3.4K GitHub stars and 871 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to PowerDNS's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses PowerDNS?

Companies
13 companies reportedly use PowerDNS in their tech stacks, including Investing.com, Hostinger Stack, and DNSFilter.

Developers
26 developers on StackShare have stated that they use PowerDNS.

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PowerDNS Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to PowerDNS?
BIND9
It is a versatile name server software. It has evolved to be a very flexible, full-featured DNS system. Whatever your application is, it probably has the required features.
CoreDNS
CoreDNS is a DNS server. It is written in Go. It can be used in a multitude of environments because of its flexibility
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
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