Just a quick blog post to recognize another OpenDNS milestone. On Tuesday and Wednesday we served over 7 billion queries in a single 24-hour period. That’s the first time we’ve hit 7 billion requests, and we’re happy to say we handled it with ease.
As always, you can see our most recent stats and system messages over on the OpenDNS System Status website.
himagain
And here I am trying to figure out how to stop my Rent-a-server choking on a coupla thousand…………
Congratulations! The numbers are extraordinary.
I’m still trying to figure out how http://plentyoffish.com
became the no:1 Dating Site running off a single tin box in a bedroom - but he only has millions a day…..
Cheers!
Himagain - old hand User. REAL Newby Webslave.
posted on July 31st, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Ed
Nice! Congrats on this achievement!
– Ed
posted on July 31st, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Cosmin Paun
Cool
Congrats
posted on August 1st, 2008 at 5:24 am
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posted on August 1st, 2008 at 7:45 am
Reetesh
Congratulations to the wonderful team of OpenDNS!! I am a recent “convert” to your service & am amazed at your KISS (Keep It Simple & Straight) way of working
Regards
posted on August 2nd, 2008 at 6:53 am
Jonathan Yaniv
Awesome! Way to go!
Now on our way to 8,000,000,000, or even better, 10,000,000,000
posted on August 3rd, 2008 at 9:53 am
Will
Darn, you just couldn’t hold out till Aug. 13.
Congrats! Job well done!!!
posted on August 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Will
Wow, but you might just hit a total of 2 trillion dns requests on my birthday.
posted on August 3rd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
B. Malik
Congratulations and thanks for all great services you provide.
posted on August 4th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Allister
You guys should talk to Twitter about scaling
posted on August 7th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Stephen Burnett
It should come as no surprise that OpenDNS continues to experience unheard of, unprecedented, phenomenal growth.
You saw a need — in fact an entire body of needs — and you satisfied it in extraordinarily fit-and-finish with a body of work that in each case sticks to “The KISS Principle” mentioned above.
“Form follows function” seems to me to be at the heart of all of your work. OpenDNS is unique in that key way, and that is the most important reason that you continue to thrive.
I congratulate OpenDNS on your most recent milestone [7-billion DNS requests in a single day], and look forward to doing this again as the mile-markers retreat into the distance.
posted on August 9th, 2008 at 5:56 am
Marvin George
You should getting a higher volume as the patch to the DNS was hacked last Friday. There will be more people coming to your site to use it because of this problem. So you should prepared to get very fast increase as NY Times wrote a story on breaking the patch to DNS. I hope you have the equipment in place to handle this load coming. Since you are handling less than 1 percent of DNS workload a 1 percent level could really add volume and please be prepared.
posted on August 10th, 2008 at 10:01 am
sohbet
thanks a lot
posted on August 12th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Fermus
Long live the pirate bay
posted on August 13th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Josh
Congrats
I’ve just started using this service today (after not being sure what my Virgin DNS was).
I searched on google for an answer and I believe within the first link to a forum was a reply stating to use opendns, which upon reading what you do I was very interested and eager to try it out. I have added your DNS servers to my router and I am loving the features so far! The customisation is great and I will make sure my friends check you out!
Josh
posted on August 14th, 2008 at 6:04 am
JP White
Less than one month later OpenDNS is tantalizingly close to 8 billion requests. Growth is phenomenal.
I listened to the interview Kaminsky gave to CBS. He suggested OpenDNS as a way for consumers to mitigate risk and went onto say that the reason he recommends OpenDNS is because they have the capacity to deal with the increase in traffic his advice would bring.
http://audio.cbsnews.com/2008/07/31/audio4309775.mp3
posted on August 21st, 2008 at 3:39 am
Yunar
Congratulations!
I just registered to your service, awesome! I know this site from my Germany friend. Thank You.
posted on August 24th, 2008 at 5:49 am
hotline
very good i like opendns very much
ty all
posted on August 29th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Tigre Marino
Thanks for the wonderful service, I want to congratulate you for your work, you make the Internet better!
The DNS of Prodigy Internet Mexico are utter crap and now I surf speedier and safer than ever!
posted on September 3rd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Ardian Luarasi
Well….CONGRATS! As u guys made my day some months ago…here’s my first THANK YOU for everything you’ve offered me and for all the headaches your taking on you so I could have a ONE-CLICK job to fill my needs!
posted on September 7th, 2008 at 7:52 am
chris
way to go, guys! it’s been great watching opendns grow like it has!
posted on September 9th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Shanka
Brilliant, simply Brilliant!! Thanks for the great faster service.
posted on September 14th, 2008 at 7:35 am
xploit29
I love that (woot) icon! haha!
It’s great and awesome stats.
Gettings
posted on September 27th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Chris Hesselrode
Many congrats on the continued success, and for keeping up the great work with OpenDNS! I’ve recommended and changed peoples DNS for them after explaining how it can benefit them - and they’ve never looked back.
Again, congrats and thanks!
Chris
posted on September 30th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Tim
Why don’t you have a timezone adjustment? I should be able to offset my timezone in my settings.
-Tim
posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm