Anycast is a routing feature BuyVM offers free to every customer. Announce a single IP across Las Vegas, New Jersey and Luxembourg, and your inbound traffic is automatically routed to the VPS nearest each visitor — lower latency, higher throughput, no enterprise price tag. Your only cost is three VPS.
With a working anycast configuration, the same IP address is announced from all three locations at once. Each visitor's traffic takes the shortest path to whichever PoP is closest to them — European visitors land in Luxembourg, United States visitors go to Las Vegas or New Jersey depending on their location, and Asia routes to Las Vegas.
By serving content closer to the visitor, latency drops and throughput rises. Both add up to a happy visitor with content that loads fast and properly.
Anycast requires a VPS — KVM or OpenVZ — in every BuyVM location. Put one in each and a single IP spans the globe.
Content Distribution Networks are the obvious win, but many applications get faster and more resilient on anycast.
Serve sites and static assets from the PoP nearest each visitor. Pages load fast and properly wherever your audience is.
Run authoritative DNS on one anycast IP and answer every query from the closest server — the classic, battle-tested anycast use case.
Point players at one address and land them on the nearest region automatically — lower ping, smoother play, fewer rage quits.
Keep voice-over-IP latency low by terminating calls at the closest PoP — clearer audio with fewer drops and less jitter.
Anycast is free for all BuyVM VPS customers — there's no fee for the feature itself. Place one VPS in each location and you're ready to announce a global IP. Your whole bill is just those three servers.
# announce one IP across every PoP
$ stallion anycast add 203.0.113.10
✓ Las Vegas, NV announced
✓ Piscataway, NJ announced
✓ Roost, LU announced
# enable automatic failover
$ stallion anycast failover on
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Deploy a VPS in Las Vegas, New Jersey and Luxembourg, announce one IP from the Stallion control panel, and route every visitor to their nearest PoP. Anycast itself is free — humans who actually run the network included.