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05-13-2014, 08:42 AM #1Temporarily Suspended
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CDN vs multiple cloud instances
Hi,
If you have to create a website that you know will be visited by different parts of the word, is it better to have a simple CDN or multi vm sparse across the world?
I would like to do the second choice but the problem is to synchronize the contents since are all dynamic pages and due to the latency a sql cluster is impossible to do like a DFS. I considered even an object storage, but the latencies are too high from europe to US for example.
Have you any idea about which could be the best solution in this case?
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05-13-2014, 10:01 AM #2Disabled
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I'd say CDN is always the best solution.
It is established, simple to implement and manage and in most cases cheaper (or waaaay cheaper) than implementing anything on your own.
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05-13-2014, 10:04 AM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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What kambone said!
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05-13-2014, 03:56 PM #4Junior Guru
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Having multiple servers in various locations will increase the:
- sysadmin overhead for this servers
- the billing overhead of paying multiple providers
- the management overhead to upgrade / downgrade per region servers etc
- the possibility to choose non-reliable providers on non-reliable networks because the major concern will be locality and not quality.
It is a trend in the market to offer servers in various locations around the world and by that trend many customers believe that this is the proper way.
I believe that the most efficient thing to do in the 99% of the occasions is to use a CDN. That way, you can:
a) Get a server from your preferred provider (based on reliability and other aspect that matter to you) around the world
b) Maintain and manage one server
c) Let the CDN or the CDNs do the rest of the work for you
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05-14-2014, 02:26 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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I had a custom setup with VPS all across the globe to act as a CDN. It was great, until I got tired of having to setup all the servers and the bills started to add up. I had it setup as well to not redirect to a server if that server seemed to be down, so maintaining uptime was not much of a issue. I finally got a CDN (from WireSix, which uses OnApp) and now all I have to do is upload the files to a FTP and its done.
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05-14-2014, 03:04 AM #6Temporarily Suspended
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Ok, I will put away my idea of using multiple vm and I will check for a cdn or two...
My sysadmin part wanted to have many vm to manage but I have to agree with you, could be many problems in that kind of setup.
Thanks guys Appreciated help!
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05-14-2014, 03:09 AM #7Web Hosting Evangelist
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05-14-2014, 03:33 AM #8Temporarily Suspended
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They say that they prefer to have control over the infrastructure so that troubleshooting will be easier and is more elastic in this way since you can create and delete vm via the API of the various cloud providers, so they were planning to implement an auto-scaling system.
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05-24-2014, 12:06 PM #9Junior Guru Wannabe
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With most CDN solution if you server goes down all dynamic content will be unavailable, so having multiple servers in different part of the internet and redirecting the request to the nearest one if available while complex it is a good solution depending on your budget
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05-24-2014, 01:12 PM #10Disabled
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Global Traffic Dircetion to installations in regions close to your users (even say one install in Europe and one in the USA, with failover between them) is the ideal for apps like that.
A CDN helps, but will only cache static content anyway (flat pages, media, images, etc).
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05-26-2014, 04:32 AM #11Temporarily Suspended
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Well, in the end We choose to adopt a distributed multi vms setup, since the benefit of a CDN for us is not so good and neither the price.
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05-26-2014, 06:59 AM #12Junior Guru Wannabe
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I think you must check for gwan too before getting a decision
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05-27-2014, 04:08 AM #13Temporarily Suspended
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I'm going to try it, seems really awesome.
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