{"id":658,"date":"2024-02-06T18:35:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T18:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milanoventures.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2024-02-12T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T14:26:04","slug":"5-secrets-to-fast-and-reliable-cloud-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milanoventures.com\/5-secrets-to-fast-and-reliable-cloud-services\/","title":{"rendered":"5 secrets to fast and reliable cloud services"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We often come across low-cost<\/em>, low-grade competitors who offer cloud and free<\/em>-bundled DNS services out of a single server farm or, even worse, providing DNS services hosted on the same server or the same network, sometimes even at the end of a very remote xDSL line. Under these conditions, using a single location for a DNS system, long latency and any temporary network failure cause disruption of all services for a domain, including the potential loss of email.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A good Domain Name System (DNS)<\/a> and a network of globally distributed<\/em> application servers help build fast and reliable cloud services.<\/p>\n

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  1. When looking for an always-on<\/em> internet solution, the ideal is to use redundancy to protect against network failures and denial-of-service (DoS) <\/strong><\/a>attacks<\/strong>. This usually means using redundant DNS and servers<\/strong> hosted at different locations, possibly routed by other AS<\/strong> (Autonomous Systems). Downtimes with significant cloud and CDN providers often occur because their systems are not designed to survive a single point of failure<\/strong> inherent in their architecture.<\/li>\n
  2. Any cloud service provider should offer their clients multiple (more than two, redundant<\/em> DNS servers on different network segments and at various physical locations, with inherent redundancy in all potential single points of failure. Anycast <\/a>DNS services can also be a more expensive (sometimes less effective) solution to this problem.<\/li>\n
  3. Do you remember the notorious technological problems of HealthCare.gov<\/a> (the US President Obama Health Insurance Marketplace)? When too many users<\/strong> access an application simultaneously (i.e. any line application or a web server), the server or the network may become overloaded. The result is increased latency<\/strong> (slow or no response) and potential data loss. By carefully engineering online applications so that the number of servers can be dynamically increased<\/strong>, the application load<\/em> and the number of users<\/em> may be distributed among different servers at various geographical<\/em> locations, and more transactions can be managed simultaneously. On the other hand, when a single<\/em> data centre or server fails or if a router or the network is overloaded, all online services will become slow or unreachable.<\/li>\n
  4. By increasing the number of geographical locations where multiple origin servers<\/em><\/strong> are hosted, it is also possible to \u201cload balance<\/strong>\u201d and improve the reliability of the whole system. If one or more servers or network segments fail, a globally distributed load-balancing system<\/em><\/strong> will continue to provide service until there is at least one server online. To this extent, the most common load-balancing or passive CDN solutions relying on a single origin server<\/em><\/strong> are invalid.<\/li>\n
  5. Configuration and de-configuration of servers in case of network or server problems should be fully automatic and require little or no human intervention<\/strong> after initial set-up. A global load-balancing mechanism<\/strong> like WorldDirector <\/a>provides a fully redundant and distributed DNS system,m including content acceleration.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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