On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:23 PM, S. Dale Morrey <sdalemor...@gmail.com> wrote: > For instance I really don't want the visitors from Europe having to go all > the way to California for their websitey goodness. It would make much more > sense for them to hit the server in London. I'm pretty sure the USA folks > don't want their packets to hike it all the way to London either.
There are many different ways to distribute your load geographically, here are a few possibilities. * Use a third party CDN * Redirects (eg. http://us.example.org) * Redirect users based on country choice on initial landing page * Redirect users using geo-ip location lookups * Non-standard DNS server that returns different results by source address (Google: geoip dns) * Anycast IP address. Host an IP from many geographically disparate sites. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
