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vps.net has a feature > http://vps.net/product/geohosting/ may be can get a few pointers from there
Geo DNS maybe :P
Today is day of memories
used a patched tinydns
http://code.google.com/p/geoip-tinydns/
I downloaded the ASN / ROUTE databases from arin and RIR to build some specialized distribution of streamings to optimize costs... Was a really fun project..
Just as an example this is an extract of the route db databases from ripe
I parsed all the route object and built a distribution map based on the peeering bgp available at each edge streaming site...
The produced map file was a veeery long list like this
were %peer-diretti was a geo location based on the route object and fms the dns name to be mapped...
I personally prefer server side methods to GeoDNS (provided it's not a CDN).
Use Maxmind's free GeoIP country database and redirect based on location to a specific subdomain. us.example.com, uk.example.com, de.example.com etc.
There are many ways to achieve this. F5 Global Traffic Managers are one way which load balances traffic to other F5's or just a plain server. Based on any number of metrics. Maybe some of the open source load balancers can do something similar.
yeah i'd be looking for an open source/free balancer. still doing some initial googling
@kbar what are exactly your needs? Maybe nginx with the geoip (maxmind) database module is all you need...
yeah i'll try the nginx maxmind module.