CrowdDirector Overview
CrowdDirector is a fully functional load-balancing service
CrowdDirector monitors and manages traffic across your mission-critical servers, services, and compute clouds to maximize availability and control of web and Internet services.
CrowdDirector enables content providers to configure and manage disparate network resources - without having to build and support the tools to monitor and manage them.
CrowdDirector is equivalent to having high-powered load balancers distributed across the internet, setup to feed information about your site operations in real-time.
3Crowd has done all the work and innovation to make the system seamless and deployable within minutes.
Capabilities
Global Server Load-balancing |
Global DNS & HTTP Traffic Shaping |
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Site Resiliency |
Multi-CDN Manager |
Features & Benefits
- Maximizes site availability and reliability
- Dynamically-weighted global load-balancing
- Static weighted global load-balancing
- Programmatic fail-over actions
- Maximizes cost controls
- The ability to route user to content servers that are geographically close
- Allows busy servers to automatically migrate traffic to infrastructures less busy
- Immediate, seamless deployment with graphical setup
- No additional equipment requirements
- Globally anycasted
- Monitoring and failover cleanly integrate with your existing DNS
- Real-time notifications
Service Specs
CrowdDirector™, a Content Delivery Load Balancing Service provides the following capabilities:
Software specs |
Description |
| Network Resource Management | Multiple types of resources are configurable: CDNs, servers, cloud servers/storage |
Interoperability |
CrowdDirector is interoperable with multiple CDNs, cloud providers |
Maximum number of resources |
Unlimited |
Active network resource health checking |
Either HTTP based or SNMP polling is used to monitor the health of the network resource |
| Load-balancing | |
Rule Sets |
Multiple rule sets can be created per CNAME, each with at least one default rule containing one action |
DNS and HTTP redirection |
Both HTTP and DNS based redirection methods supporting IPv4 and IPv6 protocols |
Performance Rules |
Rules based on performance parameters such as system latency, network resource health, capacity, and ASN |
Business Rules |
Rules based on geography, time/day, URL matches, and IP |
| Actions | |
Delivery from resource |
Simplest action routing requests to single resource |
Delivery evenly over network |
Redirects requests evenly across a set of specified resources |
Weighted Delivery |
Distributes requests across a set of weighted resources |
Auto-weighted Delivery |
Enables redirects to be automatically balanced across resources in order to maintain a specfic level of performance. Weights are re-adjusted across network resources based on monitored performance. |
Failover |
If any of the monitored resources have failed a failover action is performed |
Statistics |
Parameters displayed |
HTTP Re-directs |
Total hits, hits by network/rule/Geography /ASN/rule and browser |
DNS re-direct |
Total hits, and hits by network, rule, geography, and ASN |
Network monitoring |
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Diverse content re-direction |
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| Video re-direction | Using DNS redirection, RTMP, Silverlight, windows media, iPhone, and other types of streaming are supported |
| Software distribution | Using the rules engine, and either http or DNs, content publishers are able to distribute software to users with the lowest latencies possible. |
| Static content re-direction | Whether it's a simple web page or a dynamic web page using php, ruby etc, CrowdDirector will redirect the request to the right server with out affecting the service. |
Interoperable Distributed Delivery Platform |
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| Using Anycast and servers are located worldwide ensuring the lowest latency to service a request. | |
Protocols Supported |
FTP, ICMP, HTTP/HTTPS, TCP, and others |
Scalability and Performance |
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| Maximum number of re-directions | Unlimited - As a service CrowdDirector will scale to meet the needs of any individual customer |
| Req/sec | Unlimited – As a service CrowdDirector will scale to meet the needs of any individual customer |
Administrative |
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| Manage users | Add/edit/remove users with normal and administrative privileges |
| Billing | View your 3crowd charges |
Pricing
