Re: Large Infrastructure question

2014-08-08 Thread David Schwartz
What’s anycast? I don’t care where the servers are located. I’m just thinking that it’ll work best to dedicate a specific server to serving individual geographic areas. It’s more of a routing question, not a hosting question. -David On Aug 7, 2014, at 11:48 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > Sound

Re: Large Infrastructure question

2014-08-08 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I am going to send you for research, because explaining it via a phone keyboard would be quite time consuming. Short version is you get one IP that resolves the the advertised systems with the lowest cost rout from the source. This typically means the closest logical cluster. It is how things like

Re: Large Infrastructure question

2014-08-08 Thread Michael Butash
Googling it leads to much more verbose descriptions than you'll want, otherwise Bryan's suggestion suffices. :) Let the routing protocol that runs the internet (bgp) do your load-balancing, just make sure your app can service requests anywhere, literally. You need to understand the networki

Re: Large Infrastructure question

2014-08-08 Thread Paul Mooring
Allow me to present an alternative point of view: BGP Multipathing is cool technology and can definitely fit many of the needs for an HA service. It's been a standard for a long time and works so well that, while I couldn't prove it, I strongly suspect that Amazon, Microsoft, Google, $cloud_provi

Hackfest Saturday August 9, 2014 11:00AM - 2:00PM - Attend DefCon Virtually

2014-08-08 Thread PLUG Announcements
Subject: Attend DefCon without traveling to Los Vegas We are hackfesting yet again at DeVry University, this time we will virtually attend Defcon 22. Bring your own system or use the computers in the DeVry Classroom with our livecd Backtrack 5r3 disks. Trade an identification to the front desk