Is there an advantage to hosting a site's intn'l version on the foriegn IP rather than on the same US IP?
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Yes, but not for any of the reasons that you mentioned.  Where are the users of the international site located?  It makes good sense to put the version of your website close by in case of an accident, or simply to make access for them faster.\n\nFrance is probably not a good example, a prime example would be China.  China's access out of their national network is very limited.  In 2001 I was working for a multinational company with offices on the west coast of the USA, Tokyo Japan and Beijing China.  I was sent with another engineer from Tokyo to Beijing to coordinate last minute changes for a major software release.  The second day we were there, there was an accident with the primary network cable going out of China.  Poof.  All of China was essentially disconnected from the internet at a single stroke, but they still had access to our local corporate website since it was located in Beijing.\n\nThis is an extreme case, but accidents do happen.\n\nAlso be aware that knowledgeable users will be able to tell where the website is located.  You cannot hide the IP number and it is very simple to map an IP number to a geographical location.  It might be a poor political decision to host the site out of the country because people will find out.
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For the email, this is no problem...\nYou can signup for a Yahoo Mail and say you are in UK and will get your mail as whatever@yahoo.co.uk\n\nAs for the IP, there are some applications that hide your real IP and provide you with another virtual one\nThey are known as IP Hiders and they work in a Proxy Technique...\n\nAbout whether its possible to choose an IP of a specific country, don't know of any application that does it, but if  there is applications that change your physical IP to a Virtual IP, then probably there is an application that would provide you with the feature of choosing the country you want...
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Of course!  That's an advantage.  Some disadvantages are that you must ask for higher shipping and handling in most cases.  Another disadvantage is you must find a way to find the currency equivalent (i.e. items in the U.S. are less expensive than Canada and the United Kingdom).  Ebay will help with that.  Just type in your new address on ebay.
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Suggestion;\n\nUse a big time hosting company that does international, they will have the answers to these questions
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Just install IIS or use Apache - setup the website on any port (most likely port 80 if you don't want to type the port in).  Hook up to  your router (usually 192.168.0.1) and use port forwarding and choose whatever port above and point it to your internal IP of your server.\n\nIf you want to have a domain, just setup one with DNS2GO which will automatically configure a dynamic IP.  GOOD LUCK!
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There are several free services on the web that claim to translate an IP Address into a physical location.  They're mostly pretty bogus... often off by one state, at least, and sometimes more.\n\nYour ISP may have moved around the assignments of the IP address ranges that it "owns", and the service that does the translation hasn't figured it out yet.
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You could do a reverse-DNS lookup.  I don't know how helpful the information would be from a security standpoint.  Also you would tax your web server's processor.
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No, you don't have to buy both at the same place. You can shop around for your domain, and you can get really good deals at sites like godaddy.com, etc. Even Yahoo offers dirt cheap options for registering domain names. Each of these companies, however, will try to sell other services (hosting, email, etc.) to you that cost a lot more. Compare the price of the hosting services separately and sign up with the best/cheapest. During the signup process with your hosting service, it will ask you if you want to register a new domain or transfer an existing one. Then, you can choose to transfer the existing domain which you got earlier. The process of transferring an existing domain is always free, I think.
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The path data travels varies according to where the data is coming from, of course, but it should travel along the shortest route. If you're accessing a site that's hosted on a server in Egypt, it's not going to go all the way to the U.S. and back to get to you. It may be routed along a slightly longer route if there's something wrong with the lines in the area, or if you're using a proxy server (in which case it will go to the proxy first, wherever it's located, then to you). And the internet as a whole is decentralized.  It's composed of computers and service providers from all over the world, there's no common place all the data travels through. It doesn't get any more decentralized than that.
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I think your misunderstanding.  A dynamic ip address is not what you want, it changes everytime you log on.  and its not your address you need to worry about, its the address of wherever your connecting to.  I am not familier with the site no-ip.com, but if it wants you to mess with ip adresses I would be a little suspicious.
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It knows what country you are in from your ip address and redirects you to a local Google.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Address\n\nYou can use a proxy to hide you ip if you want to access Google.com. E.g. http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html\nYou would probably need a US proxy for that.
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It's not really a "pro/con" type of thing.  It's a matter of having two options and deciding which is best for your situation.\n\nStatic (fixed) IP addresses are better when you have only a few computers.  There is not much of an administrative burden in tracking the addresses which are used.  In this case it is not worth the time and expense to set up a DHCP server.\n\nDynamic IP addresses are better when there are many computers.  You set up a DHCP server and it handles allocating IP addresses.  It is better because it removes the burden of tracking IP addresses from the administrator and reduces errors.
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The hosting company serves and stores your webpages so that people can see if when they access your URL. There are a lot of options out there to choose from. You can ge it for as cheap as 5 dollars a month. You can choose if you want your own domain, so it would be something custom like joesmoeswebsite.com or you can sign up with something free like GeoCities.
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google "ip hide". You will come up with some 30 day trial software that will let you select proxies from different countries.
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I recommend www.ixwebhosting.com.  \nPlenty of space, domain name, etc. etc.  Looks like a sweet deal.  \n\nKeep in mind - if you choose Linux/Unix hosting over Windows based because it is cheaper, remember that your code will be CASE SENSITIVE!  \nOr at least I believe it will... anyway, www.ixwebhosting.com looks good.  \nGood luck.
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Normally it's about 24 hours to propagate across the US.   \nonce the DNS is Set for the domain, that is 'fired' off to other DNS servers, that branch out to others servers, etc until everyone is update with the new location.
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Yes. This is very possible. First of all, you need a domain name. I use http://noip.com , because it's free. Then, you need to get a hosting program/server. I recommend Foxserv. It is very simple to set up. Get it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/foxserv/ . It is the simplest way to set up your own server.\n\nYou also need a page to display. Try phpnuke. It's what I use, and it is very easy to configure and is good looking and provides a lot of functionality. Check it out at http://phpnuke.org.\n\nGood Luck!