We performed a comparison between Akamai Edge DNS and Quad9 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, Microsoft, Amazon and others in Managed DNS."It is a very stable solution since it has a security feature that allows you to recover zone files if you accidentally delete them."
"The most valuable feature of Quad9 is that it is a free solution."
"Setting up Quad9 is straightforward if you know what you're doing, and it's easy to use overall."
"CNAME flattening is a feature that Akamai does not support."
"Quad9 could improve by having more free features, such as custom DNS filtering."
"It used to work fine for all the devices, but it started to slow and become non-responsive. I would have to reload the page two or three times before all the pages loaded. With OpenDNS, I only need to load the page once."
Akamai Edge DNS is ranked 9th in Managed DNS with 1 review while Quad9 is ranked 4th in Managed DNS with 2 reviews. Akamai Edge DNS is rated 9.0, while Quad9 is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Akamai Edge DNS writes "A very stable solution with strong security features and an easy initial setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quad9 writes "It's easy to use and set up, but I've faced performance problems ". Akamai Edge DNS is most compared with NS1 Managed DNS, Cloudflare DNS, Amazon Route 53, Cisco Umbrella and Google Cloud DNS, whereas Quad9 is most compared with Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Verisign Public DNS, Cisco Umbrella and Neustar UltraDNS.
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