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Interesting idea, but way broken. The problem with an IP address based solution is that it wouldn't scale well for web farms, load balancers/fail-over equipmen
by brk 19y ago
Interesting idea, but way broken.
The problem with an IP address based solution is that it wouldn't scale well for web farms, load balancers/fail-over equipment, etc.
Also end-users/web businesses can't really "own" an IP like they do a domain name, only ISP's can technically be assigned IP's. IPs aren't portable like domain names, so you'd be stuck with 1 ISP once you built up your site.
- smhinsey 19y agoThis doesn't imply anything about load balancers not working. Load balancers work by creating what are called VIPs - virtual IPs, which aggregate the IP addresses of the balanced services. In a lot of cases, the individual services need not even be routable from the public internet as long as they are reachable from the load balancer's internal interface. (edit: fixed a typo)
- brk 19y agoNot all load balancing schemes use the VIP concept. In either case, you are still tied heavily to the existence of a single IP, which greatly limits portability.