Re: 2 Colo's

Will Snow <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.load-balancing.general
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
>>
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