Gabriel R.'s questions

The web application we develop is doing certain things depending on the domain and subdomains in the address. To be able to develop and test everything on a local environment, one would need to bind the domains to 127.0.0.1, using the hosts file.

However, this would cut that machine off from accessing the live server domains.

Question: Is there a browser-level hack that allows one to do hosts-like stuff, only for that browser?

UPDATE: A proxy .pac file can do this just fine. Like this:

function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
      if (shExpMatch(url,"*.example.com/*")){
         return "PROXY 127.0.0.1:80";
      }
   }

Yay!

Are there any hosting companies specialized in serving both European, N+S American and Chinese, Indian, Korean or Japanese users?

I am looking for a dedicated or VPS to host a Drupal site, not a CDN.

Thanks.