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Mike Chen's Internet Architecture
Mike Chen's Internet Architecture
Dec 24, 2025 · Operations

How to Deploy a Two‑Location Three‑Center Disaster‑Recovery Architecture for High Availability

This guide explains the two‑location three‑center disaster‑recovery pattern, describing its purpose, typical deployment across two cities and three data centers, and step‑by‑step recommendations for same‑city dual‑active or primary‑backup setups, remote backup strategies, traffic routing, and essential monitoring.

GSLBOperationsSLB
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How to Deploy a Two‑Location Three‑Center Disaster‑Recovery Architecture for High Availability
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Apr 24, 2024 · Cloud Native

Implementing Global Server Load Balancing with k8gb: A DNS‑Based GSLB Solution for Multi‑Cluster Kubernetes

This article explains the challenges of load balancing traffic across multiple Kubernetes clusters, reviews the shortcomings of commercial, public‑cloud, Karmada, and simple DNS approaches, and details how the open‑source k8gb project uses DNS and CoreDNS to provide an automated, cloud‑native GSLB solution with failover and multi‑cloud support.

DNSGSLBKubernetes
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Implementing Global Server Load Balancing with k8gb: A DNS‑Based GSLB Solution for Multi‑Cluster Kubernetes
DevOps Operations Practice
DevOps Operations Practice
Jan 30, 2024 · Fundamentals

Understanding CDN Technology: Principles, Solutions, and Applications

This article explains how Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) address internet performance challenges by bringing content closer to users, detailing their working principles, key components such as GSLB and caching, and common application scenarios like website acceleration, file download, and streaming.

CDNContent Delivery NetworkEdge Computing
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Understanding CDN Technology: Principles, Solutions, and Applications
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Dec 25, 2022 · Fundamentals

How CDNs Accelerate Web Delivery: Principles, Benefits, and GSLB Strategies

This article explains what a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is, how it works through edge caching and global load balancing, outlines its core functions and service models, and compares DNS‑based, HTTP‑redirect and IP‑spoofing GSLB approaches with their advantages and drawbacks.

Content Delivery NetworkGSLBGlobal Load Balancing
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How CDNs Accelerate Web Delivery: Principles, Benefits, and GSLB Strategies
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 26, 2022 · Cloud Computing

How CDN and Global Load Balancing Supercharge Web Performance

This article explains the fundamentals, principles, functions, service models, and global load‑balancing techniques of Content Delivery Networks, detailing how edge caching, intelligent routing, and various GSLB strategies improve latency, bandwidth efficiency, and overall user experience.

CDNContent Delivery NetworkEdge Computing
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How CDN and Global Load Balancing Supercharge Web Performance
DevOps Operations Practice
DevOps Operations Practice
Mar 5, 2022 · Fundamentals

Understanding CDN: Principles, Architecture, and Applications

This article explains the fundamentals of Content Delivery Networks (CDN), covering their history, DNS-based operation, global load balancing, caching mechanisms, typical use cases such as website and streaming acceleration, and the performance, cost, security, and operational benefits they provide.

CDNContent Delivery NetworkGSLB
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Understanding CDN: Principles, Architecture, and Applications
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Aug 5, 2021 · Cloud Computing

How CDN and Global Load Balancing Accelerate Web Performance

This article explains the fundamentals of Content Delivery Networks (CDN), their caching and load‑balancing mechanisms, the value they bring to network traffic, and how Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) techniques—based on DNS, HTTP redirects, and IP spoofing—select optimal server groups using geographic, load, and RTT strategies.

CDNContent Delivery NetworkGSLB
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How CDN and Global Load Balancing Accelerate Web Performance
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Aug 1, 2021 · Operations

An Introduction to Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)

This article explains the fundamentals of Content Delivery Networks (CDN), their architecture, key functions, and principles, and then details Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) techniques—including DNS‑based, HTTP‑redirect, and IP‑spoofing methods—along with server‑selection strategies and their advantages and drawbacks.

CDNContent DeliveryGSLB
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An Introduction to Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jul 22, 2021 · Fundamentals

Mastering DNS: From Basics to HTTPDNS and Global Load Balancing

This article explains the role of DNS in mobile network performance, details DNS hierarchy, authoritative, recursive and public DNS, explores common DNS problems such as ISP hijacking and caching, and introduces advanced solutions like GSLB, intelligent DNS, and HTTPDNS with practical command‑line examples.

DNSGSLBHTTPDNS
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Mastering DNS: From Basics to HTTPDNS and Global Load Balancing
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Jul 20, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Introduction to Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)

This article explains the concepts, principles, functions, and service models of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and details various Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) techniques—including DNS‑based, HTTP‑redirect, and IP‑spoofing methods—along with their advantages, disadvantages, and server‑selection strategies.

CDNContent DeliveryGSLB
0 likes · 13 min read
Introduction to Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Jul 11, 2021 · Fundamentals

Introduction to CDN: Principles, Functions, and Global Load Balancing

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Content Delivery Networks (CDN), explaining their definition, core principles, key functionalities, service models, and the mechanisms of global server load balancing (GSLB) including DNS‑based, HTTP‑redirect, and IP‑spoofing approaches, along with common selection strategies.

CDNContent Delivery NetworkGSLB
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Introduction to CDN: Principles, Functions, and Global Load Balancing
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Jun 30, 2019 · Operations

How DNS and GSLB Enable Multi-Active Data Center Load Balancing

This article explains DNS fundamentals, the step‑by‑step resolution process, TTL caching, and how DNS‑based Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) can direct traffic to the nearest active data‑center, providing a practical guide for building multi‑active, high‑availability infrastructures.

DNSData centerGSLB
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How DNS and GSLB Enable Multi-Active Data Center Load Balancing
Baidu Intelligent Testing
Baidu Intelligent Testing
Mar 22, 2017 · Operations

Load Balancing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Enterprise Practices

This article explains the principles of load balancing, distinguishes stateless service and stateful data balancing, describes DNS, hardware and software solutions such as F5, HAProxy, LVS, and GSLB, and illustrates real‑world implementations at Alibaba and Tencent while offering practical guidance on sharding, caching, and fault tolerance.

DNSGSLBHAProxy
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Load Balancing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Enterprise Practices
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 8, 2017 · Operations

Why Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) Is Hard: Technical Challenges and Solutions

This article explains what GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing) is, why achieving high availability, low latency, and accurate traffic distribution is difficult due to DNS limitations, caching, and routing constraints, and explores architectural and network‑level techniques such as feedback loops, anycast, and BGP routing to mitigate these challenges.

AnycastDNSGSLB
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Why Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) Is Hard: Technical Challenges and Solutions
ITPUB
ITPUB
Nov 25, 2015 · Operations

Why Meizu Adopted Multi‑Data‑Center Deployment and How It Works

Meizu moved from a single‑datacenter to a multi‑datacenter architecture to improve reliability, reduce latency, and meet user proximity demands, detailing technical challenges, traffic scheduling, read‑heavy and read‑write balanced services, and GSLB‑based routing solutions.

GSLBReliabilityTraffic Scheduling
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Why Meizu Adopted Multi‑Data‑Center Deployment and How It Works