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What is the difference between Anycast and GeoDNS / GeoIP wrt HA?
Based on the Wikipedia description of Anycast, it includes both the distribution of a domain-name-to-many-IP-mapping across many DNS servers as well as replying to clients with the most geographically ...
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Amazon S3 as source and nginx servers on the edges
For some parts of our infra we are using Amazon S3 as the source and cloudfront as the distribution cdn. However there are certain parts of the world where we would prefer to use a local server as ...
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How to host a single website on multiple geographically-diverse servers
I currently have 2 servers, using cPanel/WHM. The first one is a VPS hosted in London (we'll call it "international") and the second one is a dedicated server located in my country (we'll call it ...
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DNS setup for website on geo redundant servers
Let's say:
I have a website written in English and shown on www.somedomain.com
the website is on a US server now (based on cPanel/WHM) at some IP 12.12.12.12
I can manage the DNS of somedomain.com ...
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Multiple data centers and HTTP traffic: DNS Round Robin is the ONLY way to assure instant fail-over?
Multiple A records pointing to the same domain seem to be used almost exclusively to implement DNS Round Robin as a cheap load balancing technique.
The usual warning against DNS RR is that it is not ...
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Could a Geo-DNS create availability issues?
Geo-DNS can be used to balance traffic across data-centers.
I found this (old) article where it is described why Geo-DNS implies availability issues if one of the IPs (data centers) goes down.
Could ...
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Geo-DNS providers? [closed]
We've got a website visited by users mainly in the USA and UK. The site will be run on servers in both these locations.
We would like to use a DNS service to direct users to the nearest server, but ...
