Basic Concepts

Some Basic Concepts

  1. Profile:

    • Each Profile corresponds to a service for which the user needs to coordinate traffic. There are 2 types of profiles:
      • External profile: Used to coordinate traffic for subdomains of domains not stored on the Bizfly Cloud DNS system. When creating an External Profile, Traffic Manager will return a DNS name. You need to CNAME your subdomain to this DNS name to start using it.
      • Internal Profile: Used to coordinate traffic for domains you are storing on the Bizfly Cloud DNS system. With Internal Profile, you can coordinate traffic for both the root domain and subdomain without any limitations because no CNAME is required like External Profile.
    • A user can create multiple profiles depending on their needs.

  2. Routing method Routing method is the method of directing access to endpoints. Each routing method has a different operating logic:

    • Geographic: TFM selects the endpoint based on the client’s geographic location.
    • Weighted: TFM selects the endpoint based on the configured ratio.
    • Multivalue: TFM returns multiple endpoints at once.
    • Priority: TFM selects the endpoint according to the configured priority order.

  3. Endpoint Endpoints are IP/Domain representing a customer’s service (e.g., website IP). There are 2 types of endpoints including:

    • Internal endpoint: Is the endpoint of services located on the Bizfly Cloud system.
    • External endpoint: Is the endpoint of services located outside the Bizfly Cloud system.

  4. Healthcheck Healthcheck is TFM’s mechanism for periodically checking endpoint status. TFM provides 2 types of healthchecks:

    • HTTP: Healthcheck via the http protocol to a service’s api.
    • TCP: Healthcheck via the tcp protocol to a port.
User Guide Geographic Routing Method