We’re growing like a weed. Yesterday, we handled 14 billion DNS requests in a single day for the first time. I didn’t get a chance to blog about our previous DNS request milestones because we’ve been heads-down working on some really awesome new features and adding a bunch of capacity.
We also updated our System Status page today to show you what I mean. We’ll be bringing up a new location in Amsterdam in the next couple months and we’re working on a strategy to bring OpenDNS closer to our users in Asia.
I’ve brought back the dancing banana to help celebrate this awesome achievement. I remember when we did 100 million requests total in a single month and how awesome *that* was. Today we’re handling over 200,000 requests per second at peak load. Simply awesome. My hats off to our great ops and engineering teams and thanks to all of you who have helped us grow over the last three years.
MikeF
wow - DFW, LAX, MIA ?? nice work! You guys are getting faster and faster at cranking out the new locations. Congrads on hitting 14 billion queries.
posted on June 17th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
closedns
Can’t wait for the Asian servers! Hope it will be a huge speed increase!
posted on June 17th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
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OpenDNS now serves 14 billion requests daily….
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posted on June 17th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Martijn Wismeijer
Good to hear about the Amsterdam Location. I assume this is Amsterdam, The Netherlands and not Amsterdam, NY.
If you need help in setting up you Amsterdam presence, I am within 10 minutes of your most likely server location (Amsterdam Zuid-Oost) and would be happy to help you sort out things and get started.
Kind regards,
Martijn Wismeijer
www.linkedin.com/in/martijnw
posted on June 18th, 2009 at 12:31 am
shwalter
Crazy like growth over the last 3 years.
There is no limit. 20 billion here we come!
posted on June 18th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Lucas Saliés Brum
It’s awesome, thanks for the great service.
posted on June 18th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
KevinB
I got to say you guys are doing great with your DNS Sevices and Mad I Love Opendns very much, it’s safe to use on any computer.
posted on June 18th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Anurag Bhatia
Hello David and team
that is really good. Congrats for achievement
keep it up!
posted on June 19th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Crabby.Abby
Is this a better option for parental control? I am seriously considering buying NetNanny Home Edition for my computer. I am sick of porn showing up in places like Facebook email when I was attaching a Facebook app funny picture to my family and friends. Thanks so much.
posted on June 19th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Joachim
Amsterdam is great but how about a server in Cologne, Germany?
Anyway, good work!
posted on June 22nd, 2009 at 9:53 am
wanschepsel
Great. And at the new location IPv6 access is abundant so no reason to stay IPv4 only. Unless you don’t want to get some positive attention in the tech media
posted on June 23rd, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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posted on June 23rd, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Adi
Great, greetings from indonesia, im so happy using OpenDNS, keep the good work
posted on June 24th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
akshay
i want a comparison between opendns and websense.can you guys give me that? i want to implement opendns on my office network. i want to know why i should use opendns over websense?i know the basic stuff(like,its free),but i want more comparisons.
looking forward to your seppdy reply..
-akshay
posted on June 29th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
mrqsa
buen trabajo y que sigais subiendo .SOIS LOS MEJORES
posted on June 30th, 2009 at 12:22 am
Shawn
I sincerely hope that OpenDNS will come to Asia ASAP. It’s relatively slow when I use OpenDNS here!
posted on June 30th, 2009 at 2:51 am
cemmy
You guys are awesome! Keep up the good work.
posted on June 30th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
rachmat
see my reviews about opendns, I hope more indonesian people will use opendns.
thank you opendns
posted on June 30th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Oscar Luiz
Brazil, David Ulevitch, Brazil!!!!
What we can do to have an OpenDNS here? I will help you!
Greetings!
Regards!
posted on July 1st, 2009 at 1:26 pm
J.C. Denton
Gongratulations! Keep up with the good work!
Nevertheless I think you should really add a server in Cologne/Germany where all the NET-beat in Europe goes.
J.C. (app. computer sciences student)
posted on July 5th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Francisco Dias - Brazil!!
Hula-la!!
Maybe we need an OpenDNS close to us, in Brazil.
Congratulations…
posted on July 8th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
EdRoxter
Congrats from Bonn, Germany. You guys rock it so hard, Slayer should prostrate before you.
Really looking forward to the launch of the Amsterdam Location. London is already fast as hell, so I guess the latency to Amsterdam will bring my console to burn down within milliseconds when pinging it.
posted on July 17th, 2009 at 1:58 am
John in Dublin
Hey David and Team
A Linux Ubuntu user here in Dublin. Many congratulations and may I wish you continued success. Since all the problems with Eircom.net DNS servers you guys have really helped many people in Ireland in the last few days. I for one will be staying with OpenDNS servers. Filtering is an added bonus. I’ve had no problems using ddclient & OpenDNS. Sweet! Best wishes from John!
posted on July 18th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Jon
Just noticed you guys topped 16 billion requests. Congrats
posted on July 30th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
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posted on August 10th, 2009 at 6:59 am
King
I think opendns is the world’s number one in terms of dns request. if all the pc’s here in the philippines use open dns it will be 20 billion hits per day….hoping we will educate people here in the philippines to use opendns as alternative to the one default dns come from isp here.
posted on October 8th, 2009 at 11:52 am