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[Neodymium]

Hello WHT,

I'm looking for some advice with regards to serving a dynamic social/ecommerce website to a global audience. At present our market is primarily in the USA but we would like to expand to Europe, South Africa, Australia and other regions.

We are a UK based company, and would like to house our core hosting operations in the UK. I have had suggestions to use CDNs for static content and an anycast DNS service, but what about the dynamic content?

Do we need a web/database mirror in each region to keep the site 'snappy'? Due to user-interaction and other such elements, the databases would need to stay in 'sync' with each other. What options do we have to achieve this?

Some background:
- Servers: 1 web + 1 db server
- Environment: LAMP
- Software: Joomla!

Thanks in advance,

Nd

[Neodymium]

For what it's worth, we decided the best option was to deploy a web/database server in central USA.