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Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

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Re: Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

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I wonder if you can change the pricing plans and language around them a little. What happens if I'm going along happily on the 2500/day plan and suddenly I get hit with a traffic spike and need 20,000/day for 3 days until things calm down? If you're going to use pricing buckets like this it probably needs to also come with an automated way to bump the plan if needed. Someone else in the thread suggested Maxmind as an…

I've actually been seriously considering adding a pay as you go plan, where you pay for only per the number of requests you make,is this something that would interest you? The current prices are an extended Cyber Monday offer, I figured I'd let it run into the holidays.

Unfortunately it's never going to be spot on all the time.

Awesome points on the example ips and adding error handling documentation. Thanks for pointing me to rfc5737!

I'm adding the Error Code documentation right now.

Added a table with Error Codes and their accompanying messages.

Re: Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

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I wonder if you can change the pricing plans and language around them a little. What happens if I'm going along happily on the 2500/day plan and suddenly I get hit with a traffic spike and need 20,000/day for 3 days until things calm down? If you're going to use pricing buckets like this it probably needs to also come with an automated way to bump the plan if needed. Someone else in the thread suggested Maxmind as an…

You can download the Maxmind database locally. I don't see the option for that from IpData. That's worth the price increase for me.

Having a web API is great for low- or mid-volume applications, but adding 10ms per user for an HTTPS call would still be like 1000x slower than hitting a local DB.

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