Re: 2 Colo's
Will Snow <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.programming.load-balancing.general |
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| Organization | Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
oddly enough, it was much cheaper than I thought - the typical gslbs are around 30k each, and that's like a year of akamai service! Depending on them for the service is not a huge fault - they have REALLY high availability (and I check it all the time) --w On 5/27/09 3:06 PM, Ian Rae wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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^(TM): Keep your life in sync. Check it out. >> <http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ lb-l mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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 > _______________________________________________ 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