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+ | ====== Anycast IP VPS FREE How-to ====== | ||
+ | ===== What is Anycast? | ||
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+ | Anycast is a routing feature BuyVM offers for free to all customers. | ||
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+ | **Anycast requires customer to have a KVM Slice in all three BuyVM locations (Las Vegas, New York and Luxembourg).** | ||
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+ | ===== Why use Anycast? ===== | ||
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+ | Anycast helps speed up your sites or other services by putting visitors on server closest to them. Closest server choice results in low latency and higher throughput. | ||
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+ | ===== Does AnyCast Have DDOS Protection? | ||
+ | We offer DDOS Protection for AnyCast for **$5.00 monthly** which is powered by Cloudflare Magic Transit. | ||
+ | ===== How much does AnyCast VPS cost ? ===== | ||
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+ | Anycast is FREE for all BuyVM VPS customers. The cost will be three VPS purchases. | ||
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+ | ===== How to Enable BuyVM Anycast ===== | ||
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+ | - On any of your three VPS accounts go to the Networking tab, gearbox in the mainip box -> Assign Anycast IP (will be given option to set up to 5 anycast IPs, only one is needed) | ||
+ | - On each applicable VM, go to Networking tab, ensure Anycast IP is `on`, hit 'Save Changes' | ||
+ | - On each applicable VM, bind regular IP to eth0, Anycast to eth0:0 with only Address and Netmask fields | ||
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+ | Sample / | ||
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+ | root # cat / | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | auto lo | ||
+ | iface lo inet loopback | ||
+ | | ||
+ | auto eth0 | ||
+ | allow-hotplug eth0 | ||
+ | iface eth0 inet static | ||
+ | address | ||
+ | network | ||
+ | gateway | ||
+ | broadcast | ||
+ | netmask | ||
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+ | | ||
+ | auto eth0:v6 | ||
+ | allow-hotplug eth0:v6 | ||
+ | iface eth0:v6 inet6 static | ||
+ | address | ||
+ | gateway | ||
+ | netmask | ||
+ | | ||
+ | | ||
+ | auto eth0: | ||
+ | allow-hotplug eth0: | ||
+ | iface eth0: | ||
+ | address | ||
+ | netmask | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | * Standard naming practice is eth0, eth0:0, eth0:1, etc. I use eth0: |