Scenario: You have at least two datacenters running the same application. The primary datacenter is always active. In case of failure/disaster the secondary/backup datacenter must kick in taking control and providing access to your application (disaster recovery) Your application is mapped on a well-defined hostname (ie. www.myapplication.com) On the primary datacenter www.myapplication.com is running on IP a.b.c.d. One the secondary/backup datacenter www.myapplication.com is running on IP x.y.z.t You need your clients traffic to be sent to the primary datacenter and, only in case of unavailability, be transparently sent to the secondary/backup datacenter Solution: Use GSLB.me in priority balancing mode Define one geohost that will be pointed by www.myapplication.com… Read More
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