Products / Sentry Compute / Anycast Address
One Address. Every Client Nearby
Your VM lives behind a native anycast IP hosted by our global edge network. Clients anywhere in the world connect to the nearest edge, so latency is the best it can be no matter where they are, and the address never changes.
What the Anycast Address Buys You
Announced Globally
The global edge network announces your instance’s IP from every anycast site at once. There is no primary region and no failover copy: the same address is simply present everywhere.
Best Latency, Everywhere
The internet routes each client to the nearest edge, so a player in Berlin and a player in Dallas both take their shortest path to the same IP. Nobody is on the wrong side of the world.
Filtering Built In
Every path into the address passes the same line-rate DDoS filtering. Attacks fragment across the network and die at the nearest edge; gameplay and traffic carry on.
No Detours
The workload runs on the same network that announces its address, so there is no scrubbing-center round trip and no forwarding hop. What the filter passes, the VM serves.
Where You Run It Matters Less
Ordinary hosting makes you choose where to be, and everyone far from that choice pays for it in milliseconds. Your instance still runs in one place, but its address answers from every edge site, so traffic joins our network wherever the user happens to be and crosses our backbone the rest of the way instead of the open internet.
Built on the Global Network
The address rides the same edge documented on the Network page, verifiable through public looking glasses, and the same anycast delivery that protects everything else we run.
Keep Exploring
Sentry Compute
The full product: hardware, protection, and self-service around this address.
Anycast Delivery
How anycast and unicast addressing work across the platform.
Plans & Pricing
Every plan ships with the anycast IP included.
Our Network
The global edge that announces your address, on the public record.
Be Close to Everyone
Deploy a VM and its anycast address is announced by the global edge from the first boot