Scenario: You have at least two datacenters running the same application and both datacenters are simultaneously active (business continuity) Your application is mapped on a well-defined hostname (ie. www.myapplication.com) On the first datacenter www.myapplication.com is running on IP a.b.c.d. One the second datacenter www.myapplication.com is running on IP x.y.z.t You need your clients traffic to be sent to the geographically closest datacenter through geographical proximity Solution: Use GSLB.me in geographical balancing mode Define one geohost that will be pointed by www.myapplication.com via a DNS CNAME record Create two targets, one for each datacenter Assign the relevant checks to each target Configure the CNAME record on the primary DNS… Read More
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