: Web hosting for Israeli visitors I developed a version of a client's main website in Hebrew. Most of the Hebrew site visitors will be coming from Israel. My server is fast in the States but

@Tiffany637

One option which is certainly more complicated is to duplicate the website and put it on two servers, It won't really help with ping time IMO because all request will first have to reach your server which will then
redirect them to the Israeli server.
(I assume you don't want two separate domains for the landing page)

This can be done with a 301 redirect to another subdomain for example so the browser will cache the subdomain after the first visit so on the second visit the redirects will already be cached and occur automatically

EDIT: according to comment here it's possible to have two DNS servers for one website, I've not done that but if you decide to host on two servers this will certainly help. If you do this the 301 will not need to occur as well saving more time

The big problem with this approach is if the website has a database and you need to keep a synchronized database between the two servers.

If this is not a problem or you don't mind doing this than the first approach can be good.

Another option which can be regardless of the previous (you can do either one or even both) is to use a caching service / CDN,
there are some free ones and some paid ones.

This just makes everything faster for everyone and is always good to try when having latency issues.

Good luck!

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@Carla537

Find a web host nearer to Israel; it will decrease the ping time and therefore page load time will go down too.

For a more complex solution, you could serve from the US server to people in the US, and anywhere in Europe, you could serve from the other server. (more info)

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