[pushrax]

If you want to cut down on DNS-induced latency, Route 53 is a fairly good option. Their latency-routed DNS doesn't perfectly map to all geographical zones, but it works fairly well for DigitalOcean's locations.

I wish it was easier/cheaper to run your own anycast network...

[rdl]

I wonder if "run your own anycast network as a service" would ever make sense as a product. I can't see anyone other than CDN or testing being terribly interested, and a lot of this is included in the raw CDN use case.

[samcrawford]

There is at least one already out there - http://www.hostvirtual.com/anycast-bgp-cloud/. You have to bring your own IP space (/24 minimum of course). I vaguely remember reading the charges were in the low thousands of dollars per month, but that was a while ago.

[opendais]

https://rage4.com/Home/ANY

Is that what you are looking for? They only have 3 locations tho.

[pushrax]

Looks a bit like a one person shop – not exactly what you're looking for while building a high availability system.

[opendais]

http://www.linkedin.com/company/rage4-networks-limited

2 person shop. ;)

That said, some people on lowendtalk swear by them and they usually are the first to complain about not getting 100% uptime on a $7 a year VPS.

[opendais]

Route 53 now does GeoDNS so you can map it more accurately, for a few cents more.

http://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/

[pushrax]

Awesome, didn't realize that! Will definitely be using it.

[opendais]

It just came out this week which is probably why. :)