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akerl_ on July 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour

I'm more than a little bit concerned that the article doesn't point out the serious risk of running a single DNS server for the records.

I get that they're trying to keep things simple for their demo, but unsuspecting folks following this guide are in for quite a shock when their GeoDNS is taken out by a single physical server fault.

mxpxrocks10 on July 28, 2014 | [–]

Good point - it seemed obvious. We'll cover different options for that in a future blog post.

mxpxrocks10 on July 28, 2014 | [–]

added this to the article in the "Todo" section. thanks for the feedback.

Lennie on July 28, 2014 | [–]

In similar efforts, I also really enjoyed the slides from talk at DNS OARC 2014 about Anycast on a shoe string:

http://www.slideshare.net/natmorris/anycast-on-a-shoe-string

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