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Why not just buy a VPS and gre tunnel if the latency is not an issue - may be easier.
There is literally 0 point in having a Geolocated IP. It's all a marketing shill and you are a successful victim.
I did it for one location, it's working fine, however there's few downside :
A VPS is more expensive than an additionnal IP
Buying a VPS in another location most of the time means looking for a new provider
Search for providers with cheap IP's.
This is not used for SEO, but to monitor websites/streams which are geo restricted.
Actually having a variety of different geo located IPs can be beneficial to say a shared hosting provider. If the server is EU based then you can provide IPs localised to your customers. It will always look better if a UK company site resolves to a nice UK IP or some restaurant chain in Italy having their site resolve to an Italian IP.
Yes, but again; it's just a facade. It doesn't matter where the IP "resolves to" if the server is still in the US and the ping is still >300+ms .
Yes, because the majority of customers know what geo location is and will check it. And those who know, don't know how to do a traceroute and spot a fake geolocation. Not.
Well obviously only a retard would geolocate a German IP on a Las Vegas server. I clearly used the EU example as you can easily get between 20 and 40ms to an OVH Strasbourg server from most places in Europe that they offer geoIP addresses for.
@rds100 surely you can't be that naive that you genuinely believe that the average internet user knows what a geoIP is and secondly how to resolve it to it's true location?
It seems the IP's from HostUS are somewhat set to geolocate. I was checking my IP's to see if they weren't blacklisted (they were not), but I did notice on the map that it would trace near my location.
HostUS doesn't have servers in the EU though, so not an option for you at the moment.
@VPN i mean that the majority of the users of a website don't know or care where the server is located or geolocated.