Geo-DNS providers? [closed]
Wikipedia use a PowerDNS with Geobackend to serve clients from the closest server.
I have a similar service running for my http://static.natalian.org site. I want it in order to serve large HTML5 video files efficiently between my servers.
To set it up is quite easy. I setup A records like so:
eu.static.natalian.org 88.198.3.35
us.static.natalian.org 67.205.62.95
*.static.natalian.org 67.205.62.95
Then for static.natalian.org
I set a CNAME to the third party GEO PowerDNS
service running at natalian.geo.blitzed.org
.
The rules for how it maps onto country codes can be found from:
rsync -v rsync://rsync.blitzed.org/geo-maps/natalian .
To scale further to Asia, I would rent a server in Korea and I would rsync
the data and setup an Apache vhost to serve static.natalian.org from the new
Korean IP, say 143.248.5.130. Then I would simply add:
as.static.natalian.org 143.248.5.130
Here are two reasonably priced DNS service providers that offer Geo targeting: http://edgedirector.com/ and http://www.geoscaling.com/
The second one seems more inviting and better organized. I have not tested either of these services.
Here is a forum topic on it. Many providers are mentioned.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=857871