Open-source alternative  ·  DNS Management

Replace Cloudflare Enterprise DNS with PowerDNS.

Authoritative DNS server powering some of the largest networks. DNSSEC, geographic load balancing, API management, and high-availability clustering. Self-hosted, handles millions of queries.

You'd keep~R444 000/year

Current licence  ·  DNS Management

Cloudflare Enterprise DNS

~R444 000/yr

10-user estimate

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PowerDNS

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R444 000/yr

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Today's licence price

The tier.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate.

Enterprise

R444 000/yr

R37 000/month

Flat rate

With PowerDNS

Keep R444 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Cloudflare Enterprise DNS grows around 10% per year on average. PowerDNS hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR197kR393kR590kR787kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R715kR44k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R3.16M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Cloudflare Enterprise DNSPowerDNS, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.