Anycast Routing is an industry best practice to give servers the highest possible uptime, but that's only the network part. Magnolia CMS easily manages to synchronize multiple server nodes when publishing content. That's the content part. We at MiroNet bring the content and the network together and want to talk about our experiences on "The Internet" (literally) with Magnolia and Anycast Routing.

1. High Performance Magnolia
with Anycast Routing
Michael Robertson Mathias Seiler

2. Agenda
Short portrait of MiroNet
- What we do
- Our connection to Magnolia
- Where we want to go
Our idea
- The content part
- The network part
- Combining both parts
Anycast Routing
- Short overview and introduction
- How does it work?
- Indepth explanations
- Our experiences / Demo
Q&A

3. What we do
Mac & Co.
Consulting, Sales, Installations, System Administration and Support

4. What we do
Hosting
~500 Domains
Mostly Magnolia Hosting
Groupware Solutions
PHP

5. What we do
Infrastructure
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)
Cisco Hardware
Autonomous System (AS 49983)
Local Internet Registry (LIR)
Multihomed
International Peerings

6. Our Connection to Magnolia
Former Partner
Magnolia Hosting
Managed Services for Magnolia International Ltd.
Virtualized Server Infrastructure
Where we want to go
High class enterprise hosting with professional equipment

7. Our Idea
The content part
Publishing to multiple server nodes
Magnolia Feature

9. Our Idea
The network part
Addressing and Routing Methods
Best Practices
Combining both parts
to provide highest availability and low latency

10. Routing Methods
Unicast Broadcast
Anycast Multicast

11. Combining both parts
Example Unicast

12. Combining both parts
Anycast: availability and low latency
???

13. Anycast
It’s all about addressing
91.212.196.10
2a00:17e0::24:1

14. Anycast
... and routing :)

15. Anycast
Same IP addresses on same network
Doesn’t work ...

16. Anycast
Sure?
Just add routers!

17. Anycast

18. Anycast
91.212.196.10
2a00:17e0::24:1

19. Anycast
?

20. Anycast
?

21. Anycast
Anycast ist not new.
17 years or older
RFC1546 in 1993 – private IP addresses were born
Used for DNS
9 out of 13 root servers
Mostly UDP traffic
1 packet goes out, 1 returns

22. Anycast

23. Anycast
Why is it not used for Websites (yet)?
• Content synchronisation.
• Connection-oriented protocols (TCP)
• Long-lived downloads C
A
B

24. Demo Time

25. Questions?