Leaseweb Anycast DNS: What it is and how to use it

With Leaseweb’s Anycast DNS, you get it all. It’s a highly available, reliable, resilient and low latency Domain Name System (DNS). Leaseweb’s Anycast DNS is designed to give businesses an extremely reliable and cost-effective way to route end-users to Internet applications by translating domain names (e.g. www.leaseweb.com) into numeric IP addresses (e.g. 185.28.68.130) that computers […]

Leaseweb introduces third generation CDN: multi carrier rack

As a CDN operator, we are continually pioneering new technologies in order to improve performance and lower our cost base. In this context, we have launched several generations of CDN PoPs. The first generation connected the CDN servers to several carriers via Leaseweb’s routers. The router ports found the best and fastest route available. In […]

Local DNS-anycast, SIDN’s revolutionary new approach in response to the DDoS rat race

As the administrator of .nl, SIDN is responsible for the functional stability and development of the Netherlands’ country-code top-level domain (TLD). Leaseweb recently became the first company to implement SIDN’s local anycast technology in its network. Marco Davids, Technical Advisor at SIDN, explains how local anycast differs from regular anycast. At SIDN we operate an impressive […]