<div dir="ltr">Will a tiny VPS work? I have 128M/5G/250G from Front Range Hosting for $2/mo.<div><br></div><div style>DNS round robin is about as reliable as any global load balancing scheme. The main technical problem is that you cannot control client caching. So that means multiple A record responses are needed. And that means that you don't have anything like fine control over where traffic goes. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I'll happily donate an RPI in my basement to the cause, or chip in to buy additional cheap VPS services.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:42 PM, David L. Anselmi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anselmi@anselmi.us" target="_blank">anselmi@anselmi.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Basement hosting has been mentioned in the past for providing the services our VPS provides. I<br>
haven't heard anything better than round robin DNS for load balancing, which seems a little fragile<br>
to me.<br>
<br>
But maybe this fits the bill: <a href="http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/lbcd/" target="_blank">http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/lbcd/</a><br>
<br>
(Probably not, but it might be an example of how to do it if different measurements were made.)<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
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