Archive for the ‘DNS’ Category

Distributed Data Centers

August 28th, 2008 by Mitja Robas


Are you building a backup data center (BDC) and experiencing headaches due to the related expenses? Or perhaps you already have a BDC and want to reduce the operational expenses? One way to cut expenses is to look at the second data center as the active data center, and utilize its ...

A Quick Comparison of DDC Site-Selection Methods

August 12th, 2008 by Mitja Robas


When setting up a distributed data center (DDC), the architect has to decide which method will be used for site selection to distribute client traffic between the sites. The distribution is done using global server load balancing (GSLB), typically via HTTP redirect, DNS-based site selection or route health injection (RHI) ...