How to use Anycast DNS with a web hosting account
This article discusses using Anycast DNS with shared hosting and reseller hosting accounts.
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About Anycast
Anycast is a network routing and addressing methodology that provides several advantages:
- Improved DNS query performance.
- Redundancy.
- Load balancing.
By default, shared hosting and reseller hosting accounts use Anycast for DNS. You do not need to do any additional configuration steps for your account to use Anycast.
The following Anycast name servers are the defaults for shared (a2hosting.com) and reseller hosting (supercp.com) accounts:
Shared hosting
| Server name | IP address |
|---|---|
| ns1.a2hosting.com | 162.159.25.95 |
| ns2.a2hosting.com | 162.159.24.221 |
| ns3.a2hosting.com | 162.159.25.82 |
| ns4.a2hosting.com | 162.159.24.227 |
Reseller hosting
| Server name | IP address |
|---|---|
| ns1.supercp.com | 162.159.24.43 |
| ns2.supercp.com | 162.159.25.30 |
| ns3.supercp.com | 162.159.24.28 |
| ns4.supercp.com | 162.159.25.237 |
More Information
For more information about Anycast, please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast.
Article Details
- Product: Reseller Hosting Shared Hosting
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