Re: 2 Colo's
Ian Rae <[email protected]>
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Akamai's service is really cheaper than doing it yourself? I am pretty shocked. I'm not sure I would want to depend on them for high availability, seems like a big point of dependency. For performance, yes. Very dependable. On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:38 PM, will snow <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been looking at implementing Akamai's GTM service that does some > automatic load balancing > and failover if the datacenter is dead. I found that anything I was hosting > was subject to single points > of failure. Akamai's service was so cheap, I couldn't beat it with a custom > solution. > > --will snow > [email protected] > Sr. Director, Web Engineering, Cloud Computing > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > > > Dane Ruyle wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to hear your input on the best way to bring a second collocation > facility online. We are a SAAS company. Basically, our service is all tied > to a domain name; the www record. > > It was my intent to use 2 A records to the WWW lookup. Then, use GSLB to > control the traffic. > > This works fine when both sites are up and running, but what happens when > one goes down - rely on the built-in failover mechanism is DNS (the second A > record)? > > There's a GSLB Page of Shame http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShame.htm > > Would love to hear your input as I am going to be bringing a second one > online. > > Thanks for your time, > dane > > > ------------------------------ > Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. Check it out.<http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > lb-l mailing [email protected]://vegan.net/mailman/listinfo/lb-l > Searchable Archive: http://vegan.net/lb/archivehttp://lbdigest.com Load Balancing Digesthttp://lbwiki.com Load Balancing Wiki > > > > _______________________________________________ > lb-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://vegan.net/mailman/listinfo/lb-l > Searchable Archive: http://vegan.net/lb/archive > http://lbdigest.com Load Balancing Digest > http://lbwiki.com Load Balancing Wiki > > _______________________________________________ lb-l mailing list [email protected] http://vegan.net/mailman/listinfo/lb-l Searchable Archive: http://vegan.net/lb/archive http://lbdigest.com Load Balancing Digest http://lbwiki.com Load Balancing Wiki