: How can I route traffic between two hosting servers? I have a web site. It is designed for two target groups of users: one from Eastern Europe, second - from USA. I also have two hosting

@Radia820

Redirecting Visitors Based on Country Location in Apache2

This can be done easy in Apache2 by installing the Mod_geoip2 Apache Module, basically it connects to various API based GEO database providers and detect where the visitor is located, you can then use this collected data to redirect. A simple example of the .htaccess file would look like:

GeoIPEnable On
GeoIPDBFile /path/to/GeoIP.dat

# Redirect EU
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^EU$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.EU-Site.com [R,L]

# Redirect Asia, North America and South America
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^(NA|SA|AP)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.US-Site.com [R,L]


As you can see this is a fairly easy task but your need to pay for up to date DATABASES and normally these are charged per X amount of requests. For the module it can be found here: mod_geoip2

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@Gretchen104

The cheapest way to accomplish this would be to setup a sub-domain for each.

eu.yoursite.com and us.yoursite.com

Then when they first arrive on yoursite.com you can use a tool to determine their geolocation based on IP such as: www.ip2location.com/ or dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geolite
Set a cookie to direct them to the most appropriate subdomain.

Also html5 has a geolocation api.

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