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by getsat 4030 days ago
Anycast will spread incoming requests out to N physical machines, then you can do your layer 3 load balancing, then you can do your SSL termination and HTTP load balancing.

We didn't use anycast, though. I suggested it to our CTO many times and it would have saved us over $5,000/mo in DNS costs, but it never got done.