IP address re-routing.

need to transfer UK traffic from UK IP to US IP

[TinkyWinky]

Okay, not very techie to be honset, but my hoster in the US reckons that if I own a UK IP address, I can reroute it to the US-based hoster so that my site uk.example. com will seemingly sit on a UK IP - so I won't disappear from google.co. uk... like I have already :(

I cannot move the hosting for a number of reasons, and I need to use the uk.example version simply because I wantr to roll out a US based site on th the .com...

Anyone know anything about this or have any other ideas (including where a hoster in the USA could possibly buy a few UK IP's....!)

Thanks in advance for any help

[MattyMoose]

Well, the thing is that as soon as you buy that IP address and make all the necessary changes to routing tables around you, that IP will no longer be a UK IP, it'll be assigned in the US.

Probably your best best would be to set up a reverse proxy [en.wikipedia.org], either hosted in the UK or handled by a provider over there. Basically, a request for 'uk.example.com' would go to your UK IP, but in fact, the proxy will be passing the requests on to the US location without the customer seeing it.

Customer <---> UK IP <---> Proxy <---(behind the scenes)---> US IP

Hope that gets you going in the right direction!