Re: 2 Colo's

"Rosenberry, Eric" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.load-balancing.general
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Has anyone used UltraDNS's GSLB service?

My understanding is that their "old" solution allowed you to specify which of your datacenters to route traffic to based on which of the 14 or so UltraDNS Anycast nodes that the request came into.

Their new solution is based on a Geolocate database which gives you a finer level of granularity and also avoids users being diverted to a different datacenter upon a subsequent request if BGP state changes occur.

My understanding is that Neustar is going to move everyone from the old solution to the new Geolocate one in the near future.

I have found UltraDNS to be very expensive, and I currently have 1 hour ttls.  If we go to GSLB and set TTLs to almost nothing then our volume will go up immensely.

Who else would folks on this list trust to host outsourced DNS resolving?  Does Akamai provide plain old DNS hosting in addition to GSLB?

Thanks!

-Eric
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Will Snow
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:59 PM
To: Load Balancing Mailing List
Subject: Re: [load balancing] 2 Colo's

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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