We recently helped a customer who had dozens of virtual machines (called Droplets) from Digital Ocean spanning multiple countries. Digital Ocean doesn’t have a load balancer, but even if they did, he was looking for a way to load balance traffic in each of 3 geographically diverse regions all without having to use DNS. He was using […]
When creating a failover pool in DNS Failover you are given the opportunity to specify a monitor for each IP address that is a member of the pool to detect whether or not the IP is available (online) and can be used for the corresponding ‘A’ or ‘AAAA’ record when required. To recap, in roundrobin mode, […]
Over the years, DNS Failover has become a very popular service primarily due to the fact that it is relatively inexpensive and fairly easy to deploy and manage. But is it the right solution for your organization? In this article, we’ll outline what DNS failover is and provide an overview of the benefits and appropriate uses for […]