DNS setup for website on geo redundant servers

Question

Let's say:

• I have a website written in English and shown on www.somedomain.com
• the website is on a US server now (based on cPanel/WHM) at some IP 12.12.12.12
• I can manage the DNS of somedomain.com using a control panel to add/modify any records: A, MX etc. (Now all A records are pointing obviously to IP 12.12.12.12)

I would like that when a US guy opens www.somedomain.com the webiste is shown by the server in US, but when an European guy opens www.somedomain.com the webiste is shown by another srever in UK.

1. Is this possible using the same domain (with no sub domains redirections i.e. us.somedomain.com uk.somedomain.com) by simply adding/modifying DNS records.

2. If (1) is YES, how do I setup the DNS records of www.somedomain.com in order to accomplish this?

3. if (1) is NO, are there other solutions available to accomplish this, what are these solutions?

Thanks!

Answer 1

ccTLDs (country-code top level domain names): These are tied to a specific country (for example .de for Germany, .cn for China). Users and search engines use this as a strong sign that your website is explicitly

gTLDs (generic top level domain names): These are not tied to a specific country. Examples of gTLds are .com, .net, .org, .museum. Google sees regional top level domain names such as .eu and .asia as gTLDs, since they cannot be tied to a specific country. We also treat some vanity ccTLDs (such as .tv, .me, etc.) as gTLDs as we've found that users and webmasters frequently see these as being more generic than country-targeted (we don't have a complete list of such vanity ccTLDs that we treat as gTLDs as it may change over time). You can set geotargeting for websites with gTLDs using the

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182192