How do I set up global load balancing using Digital Ocean DNS and Nginx?

The Goal: Offer highly-available service to my users by routing all connections to the closest ‘cluster’ of servers in SFO, NYC, LON, and eventually Singapore. The global-balancing layer then routes the request to theleast connected server… If I’m reading your configuration correctly, you’re actually proxying from your global balancers to the balancers at each region. … Read more

What is a Domain Model

Basically, it’s the “model” of the objects required for your business purposes. Say you were making a sales tracking website – you’d potentially have classes such as Customer, Vendor, Transaction, etc. That entire set of classes, as well as the relationships between them, would consititute your Domain Model.

Android: Flush DNS [closed]

You have a few options: Release an update for your app that uses a different hostname that isn’t in anyone’s cache. Same thing, but using the IP address of your server Have your users go into settings -> applications -> Network Location -> Clear data. You may want to check that last step because i … Read more

Why ww2 sub domains?

People running large(-ish) sites used to do this when they needed to break up the load between more than one server. One machine would be called www then the next one would be called www2, etc. Today, much better load balancing solutions are available that don’t require you to expose your internal machine naming conventions … Read more

Set DNS options during docker build

Dockerfile-based solution You can also fix the DNS lookup problem on a per RUN-command level: RUN echo “nameserver XX.XX.1.1” > /etc/resolv.conf && \ echo “search companydomain” >> /etc/resolv.conf && \ command_depending_on_dns_resolution Keep in mind: This will only change the DNS resolution behaviour for this one RUN command, as changes to the /etc/resolv.conf are not persistent … Read more