how to dispatch network requests to the (geographically) closest server
问题 I'm a Java coder and not very familiar with how networks work (other than basic UDP/TCP connections) Say I have servers running on machines in the US, Asia, Latin America and Europe. When a user requests a service, I want their request to go to the server closest to them. Is it possible for me to have one address: mycompany.com, and somehow get requests routed to the appropriate server? Apparently when someone goes to cnn.com, they receive the pictures, videos, etc. from a server close to