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How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I'm building a website in a lot of languages that should be available all over the world. That means I would like to have low response time especially in Europe, Asia and South America. My website runs PHP scripts, needs database etc. Classical Linux/Apache website.
Now I want to ask: What's the best hosting solution and can you recommend me any companies that offer services I need? Thanks a lot!
I'm not sure about specific hosts, although if I remember correctly Hostgator offers servers on different continents and mirrors on at least two, but off the top of my head those details may be off.
Another option though that you might consider is a CDN(content distribution network), which mirrors your static files in different locations globally, allowing for shorter response times. I've been testing Cloudflare(https://www.cloudflare.com/) which offers free and paid plans, the free plan is pretty extensive and the difference it made on the site I was testing it with was pretty significant.
Added bonus aside from speed is that it helps add a layer of protection to your server since the nameservers will be Cloudflares and much of the traffic requests won't actually go to your server, that also aids in cutting down on bandwidth.
Aside from Cloudflare there are countless free and paid CDNs that would help with your situation, even with a host that mirrors globally.
Take a look at Windows Azure - it claims to supports PHP just fine and have data centers some 6 places around the globe and pretty easy deployment - a 'extra server with the click of a mouse' kind of thing. Windows Azure also have a Traffic Manager feature, which make it dead simple to have people routed to the closest data center you have, re-route is one of your sites go down etc.
The down side to Windows Azure is that you need to deploy your package differently than you are used to and it's all very cloud'ish.
See http://azurephp.interoperabilitybridges.com/
I blogged about a similar setup with a site running in Asia, Europe and US - in the blog I talk about a Geo DNS setup, but we later moved to Windows Azure Traffic Manager as it worked better and was so easy to set up.
