Scenario: You need to set up your smart DNS configuration so that the DNS resolution algorithm is driven by externally-fed performance/availability indicators, also known as metrics. In the following configuration example we will assume: the FQDN that will be resolved by clients worldwide is mytest.gslb.eu. This is your website/application host name. you have two servers (targets) that run contents for mytest.gslb.eu: 1 server with IP address 8.8.8.8 1 server with IP address 8.8.4.4 each server is considered available if its CPU load average is < 60% (this is handled by a passive check through metrics pushed to GSLB.me) How to configure it: Log on to GSLB.me using your… Read More
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Scenario: You have one or more datacenters running your application Your application is mapped on a well-defined hostname (ie. www.myapplication.com) You are using a third-party CDN (Content Delivery Network) solution to offload your traffic to your content provider You need your clients traffic to be sent to your datacenter(s) as long as it/they is/are available If one or more datacenters are not available you want your traffic to be dynamically and automatically offloaded to your CDN provider Solution: Use GSLB.me with your load balancing algorithm of choice and enable CDN offload Define one geohost that will be pointed by www.myapplication.com via a DNS CNAME record Create your target… Read More
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