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On this topic, today HP Cloud opened access to their Akamai Anycast DNS service with 75 edge locations. Pricing is about the same as Route 53 ($0.35/domain + $0

by jread 13y ago

On this topic, today HP Cloud opened access to their Akamai Anycast DNS service with 75 edge locations. Pricing is about the same as Route 53 ($0.35/domain + $0.55/million queries). Not as easy to use as Route 53 yet - configuration is via API only. https://www.hpcloud.com/products/DNS https://www.hpcloud.com/products/DNS

cbg0 13y ago
Seems like a pretty basic offering.
- jread 13y ago
  Correct - just basic DNS hosting - no extra features. It is only set apart for having 75 Anycast POPs and hosted by Akamai. Route 53 has 28 POPs, Dyn 17, and UltraDNS 33.
  - revertts 13y ago
    R53 currently lists 28 locations - "The Amazon Route 53 Global Network" section of http://aws.amazon.com/route53/ http://aws.amazon.com/route53/
    - jread 13y ago
      You're right - corrected
    - colmmacc 13y ago
      Route 53 is in 28 cities, however we have several datacenters in some cities (for example we have 3 in New York). Today there are 35 independent (own network, power, etc) Route 53 anycast endpoints.
UnoriginalGuy 13y ago
Can anyone explain what Anycast is/why it is so huge now? I just looked at the Wikipedia article and it is quite Computer Science-y rather than talking in specific terms how it works or what the benefits are. I understand how DNS works. UDP packet to server, returns IP from host via UDP, and or requests DNS record from a different DNS server with more information about the domain (all the way up to the root servers).
- jread 13y ago
  It routes a single IP address to different DNS servers depending on a user's location. It generally provides lower latency/faster DNS queries by routing users to closer DNS servers.