Pointing A record to to multiple droplets in different country/location, is this possible?

Posted on May 4, 2019

DigitalOcean

Ubuntu

By robertuk

I have a static Wordpress website and hosted on a UK IP droplet.

My A record is configured to respond to TTL 3600 to my UK IP.

I am wondering if anyone tried to link multiple A records to different droplets in different countries?

Example:

Type: A, Hostname: mydomain.com, Value: MY UK IP, TTL: 3600 Type: A, Hostname: mydomain.com, Value: MY USA IP, TTL: 3600 Type: A, Hostname: mydomain.com, Value: MY SINGAPOREAN IP, TTL: 3600

So if I get a visitor from the USA, the website will load faster since the USA IP would respond faster, am I correct to imagine this scenario?

Has anyone else tried anything like this before? Does it work? If yes, what was your setup?

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speort

May 8, 2019

For this case you can use a Load Balancer. You set the A-Record to that and the load balancer distributes the load.

alexdo

January 24, 2022

Hello there,

The DNS A record can hold only one record, so as already suggested you can use a load-balancer for that purpose.

Load balancers distribute traffic to groups of Droplets (which have different IP addresses as per your needs), which decouples the overall health of a backend service from the health of a single server to ensure that your services stay online.

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/how-to/create/

Regards, Alex