Related question -- does anyone run a site which is hosted in multiple locations?
Say you have a read-only site, and you have one copy in the Fremont CA data center, one in Frankfurt, and one in Asia. How do you direct users to the closest one network-wise?
(For static content, you can offload this problem to a CDN, but I'm wondering if you can do it just on Linode)
An old way to do it would be to have the users choose and set a cookie that redirects. But I wonder if you can do it transparently, like Google or Yahoo. Is there a DNS trick which implements this, or something else?
Say you have a read-only site, and you have one copy in the Fremont CA data center, one in Frankfurt, and one in Asia. How do you direct users to the closest one network-wise?
(For static content, you can offload this problem to a CDN, but I'm wondering if you can do it just on Linode)
An old way to do it would be to have the users choose and set a cookie that redirects. But I wonder if you can do it transparently, like Google or Yahoo. Is there a DNS trick which implements this, or something else?