Going global with EC2 and GSLB

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by nethergoat • 16 years ago

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al_james• 16 years ago

Its a shame geo aware DNS hosting is always at a premium price point.

On a related note: dns.com sell packages based on number of dns queries per month. How would I work out how many I need? Obviously its not one per visitor. Does anyone know what the rough ratio is?

nethergoat• 16 years ago

Good question. Really, it depends on the TTL... but that's not very helpful.

I checked the stats for one of our embedded apps, and I'm seeing a ratio of ~11 pageviews to 1 DNS query. That's with a 7.5 minute TTL. Clearly, your mileage may vary.

I'd be interested to know the ratio for a destination site with a longer TTL.

andrewtj• 16 years ago

I'm building a DNS service at the moment. Geo-aware DNS won't be a launch feature but it is something I intend to add in the future. The implementation I'm looking at doing will allow for returning different record data based on country-code (as determined by Maxmind GeoIP) and will be configurable via both a web interface and JSON over HTTP API. I'd be interested to know what features you'd look for in a Geo-aware DNS service and what you'd expect to pay — if you could drop me note (see profile) it'd be much appreciated.

Going global with EC2 and GSLB

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