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 ===== What is Anycast?  ===== ===== What is Anycast?  =====
  
-Anycast is a routing feature BuyVM offers for free to all customers.  With a functioning Anycast configuration inbound traffic will be routed to the VPS that is nearest to the visitor (i.e. European visitors will go Luxembourg, United States visitors depending on their location will go to either Las Vegas or New Jersey, Asia visitors will go to Las Vegas, etc.).+Anycast is a routing feature BuyVM offers for free to all customers.  With a functioning Anycast configuration inbound traffic will be routed to the VPS that is nearest to the visitor (i.e. European visitors will go Luxembourg, United States visitors depending on their location will go to either Las VegasNew York or Miami, Asia visitors will go to Las Vegas, South American visitors will go to Miami etc.).
  
-**Anycast requires customer to have a VPS instance (either KVM or OpenVZ) in all three BuyVM locations (Las Vegas, New Jersey and Luxembourg).**+**Anycast requires customer to have a KVM Slice in all four BuyVM locations (Las Vegas, New York, Miami and Luxembourg).**
  
 ===== Why use Anycast? ===== ===== 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.  It is ideal for CDN (Content Distribution Network). 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.  It is ideal for CDN (Content Distribution Network).
  
 +===== Does AnyCast Have DDOS Protection?===== 
 +We offer DDOS Protection for AnyCast for **$5.00 monthly** which is powered by Path.net.
 ===== How much does AnyCast VPS cost ? ===== ===== How much does AnyCast VPS cost ? =====
  
-Anycast is FREE for all BuyVM VPS customers. The cost will be three VPS purchases.  Anycast DOES work on our popular [[http://buyvm.net/|128MB annual plans]].+Anycast is FREE for all BuyVM VPS customers. The cost will be three VPS purchases.  Anycast DOES work on our popular [[https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/|512MB monthly plans]].
  
  
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   - On each applicable VM, go to Networking tab, ensure Anycast IP is `on`, hit 'Save Changes'   - 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   - On each applicable VM, bind regular IP to eth0, Anycast to eth0:0 with only Address and Netmask fields
-  - When Anycast is enabled for an OpenVZ, the default venet interfaces are removed, and eth0/eth1 are added. Networking will no longer be set automatically, and client will need to configure their interfaces file as they would on a KVM. 
  
 Sample /etc/network/interfaces from lv-test.buyvm.net, which uses Anycast: Sample /etc/network/interfaces from lv-test.buyvm.net, which uses Anycast:
  
 root # cat /etc/network/interfaces root # cat /etc/network/interfaces
 +<code>
         auto lo         auto lo
         iface lo inet loopback         iface lo inet loopback
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         address         198.251.86.22         address         198.251.86.22
         netmask         255.255.255.0         netmask         255.255.255.0
-        +        </code>
 * Standard naming practice is eth0, eth0:0, eth0:1, etc. I use eth0:v6/eth0:anycast simply to identify bindings easier. * Standard naming practice is eth0, eth0:0, eth0:1, etc. I use eth0:v6/eth0:anycast simply to identify bindings easier.