Case Study: Distributed Computing
How one company uses the Dynect platform with Amazon EC2.
Your fast-growing application services company is only known through its web presence. Identified early, proper management of DNS infrastructure directly impacts the perception of availability. Rapid scaling and the selection of grid computing requires a flexible and intelligent DNS management system. By choosing Dynect services, the company was able to reroute against datacenter outages and keep their application available, cementing their reputation as an always-on service with no downtime.
Problem:
- Intelligent load balancing systems are required to reroute in the case of outages.
- No consistent IP addressing scheme is difficult to manage.
- Centralized control panels offer limited control for external websites, applications, and corporate email systems.
Solution:
Your company was able to take advantage of two unique parts of the Dynect platform service offering.
- The Dynect Platform Load Balancing and Failover - By using load balancing, built into the Dynect platform, your company is able to handle traffic spikes across your network while quickly adding and allocating additional servers. In the event of node failures or even complete data center or carrier failures, intelligent failover services are able to detect outages and redirect customers to available nodes within seconds.
- Complete SOAP API - The Dynect DNS platform integrates a full suite of remote Application Programming Interface (API) functions. This API allows for complete control over DNS settings. If you want your spare web server to add itself to an LB-DNS hostname when it boots up you can do this with our API.
End Result
You are able to maintain your complete presence online eliminating the datacenters as a point of failure while being flexible for rapid growth.