Compare Constellix vs. Control D

Advanced DNS traffic management and comprehensive network oversight are now at your fingertips. Our system intelligently directs users to the optimal cloud, server, or CDN, ensuring they always receive the best performance. We provide all the tools necessary to enhance your networking and cloud infrastructure. By utilizing multiple CDNs, you can effectively expand your coverage area, guaranteeing continuous uptime even during service interruptions, while also achieving remarkable performance improvements. Mitigate a provider’s limitations by leveraging another vendor’s advantages, allowing you to maintain the fastest speeds and uninterrupted service worldwide. Our Intelligent Traffic Optimization (ITO) system automatically directs traffic to the quickest available resources within your network. With our latency load balancers, DNS records are refreshed every 30 seconds to link to the most responsive instances! The Global Load Balancer (GLB) merges GeoDNS routing strategies with load balancing methods to control traffic on a worldwide scale. When a user makes a request to your GLB records, they receive an answer from nameservers located in their respective regions, ensuring the response is tailored to their local context. This approach not only enhances user experience but also optimizes resource utilization across diverse geographic locations.

Control D is a customizable DNS filtering and traffic redirection platform that leverages Secure DNS protocols like DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-QUIC, with support for Legacy DNS. With Control D you can: block malicious threats, block unwanted types of content network wide (ads & trackers, IoT telemetry, adult content, socials, and more), redirect traffic using transparent proxies and gain visibility on network events and usage patterns, with client level granularity. Think of it as your personal Authoritative DNS resolver for the entire Internet that gives you granular control over what domains get resolved, redirected or blocked.