Setting up mirror sites

[ting.mike]

Hi!
Due to concern with download speeds, I have set up my website in two separate locations: the USA, and Indonesia. This is due to the nature of my business. Currently a lot of my clients are from Indonesia, and I want them to have fast access to my website, so I set up a hosting there.
However, I also am trying to get businesses in Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. For these I am hosting a mirror site in the US.

So far I'm giving out two separate addresses:
http://www.miketing.com is the indonesian site, and
http://www285.pair.com/tingm/ is the US hosted site.

People are happy, and download times are good.

Now the question is, how can I keep one domain name, but set up a script, so that upon detecting the location of the user, the script would redirect that user to either the Indonesia or US site?

Thanks much in advance.

PS: Feel free to give feedback on the download speed of the two URLs above. The contents are identical, just different locations.

[hydroburn]

There are various scripts that can allow you to do it. But try this site anyway: http://www.geobytes.com/GeoDirection.htm

got it from google .

[ting.mike]

thanks..

geobytes apparently routes 1 every 50 queries through their site first.. to pay off the free script they give you.

[ting.mike]

apparently these scripts route the user based on the IP address.

but how reliable can you pinpoint the country of origin based on IP address? cause if there is a mistake on that part, then the user will be sent to the wrong site, which is a small disaster.

thanks.

[tanfwc]

You can always cook up your own scripts to redirect the user, you do not have to depends on other provider than yourself.

http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country

[LampPC]

You should be using mirrors based in HK instead of US.