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[znetindia]

Who is and how multilocation hosting works?

Like

http://www.istockphoto.com
http://www.elance.com
http://www.google.com

Its hosted on multiple data centers

[nibb]

Originally Posted by znetindia

Who is and how multilocation hosting works?

Like

http://www.istockphoto.com
http://www.elance.com
http://www.google.com

Its hosted on multiple data centers

Level3
Internap
Terremark (Enterprise cloud)
Rackspace

There are plenty that can give you multiple datacenters.

http://www.terremark.com/services/cl...risecloud.aspx

[dazmanultra]

What type of website are you intending to host?

If you have a static website, or a web site that doesn't have end-user interactivity (as opposed to a forum, or an e-commerce store) this type of set up can be achieved fairly easily.

If you have a database driven site where operations need to be atomic like in the aforementioned cases, then you will need to heavily research that any proposed solution meets your requirements, this this type of set up is not trivial and would typically require some kind of database clustering and/or replication.

[nibb]

I guess he is just asking as some of those solutions costs a couple thousands a month if you add load balancing, replication and redundancy.

[znetindia]

can anyone suggest architecture for this solution?

[MikeDVB]

You could use a CDN to make most of the content geographically dispersed but beyond that you'd just need servers in multiple locations and have geo-DNS set up - at least - that's the cheapest way to go about it imho.

[nibb]

Originally Posted by znetindia

can anyone suggest architecture for this solution?

Why would anyone do that? You can get some netscalers to start which costs between 25,000$ and 300,000$.

I dont think anyone that has such an infrastructure is going to publish his plans here on a forum, specially because they cost tons of money just in paper design, ideas are worth more then anything else this days. If someone cames with a very small setup to do this I dont think he will share it with competition. There are to many ways to do this in different ways, some are cheap, some very expensive, some work, others fail all the time. But if you really are interested, this are the guys that are going to help you out:
www.digitalrealtytrust.com