I made a simple geolocation service

Love the ingenuity and thank you for the performance comparison on Cloudflare Workers vs AWS Lambda. I personally wouldn’t consider what you built a Geolocation service, but glad it solved your use case!

Re: I made a simple geolocation service

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Post by maxko » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 8:13 AM UTC

crispyporkbites wrote: post #2

Are you charging for this?

The code is available for free and you can host it on your own Cloudflare account. Cloudflare provides a free plan (up to 100k daily requests across all your Workers), and paid plan ($0.50 per 1m requests)

Re: I made a simple geolocation service

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Post by maxko » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 8:16 AM UTC

bellwether wrote: post #4

Love the ingenuity and thank you for the performance comparison on Cloudflare Workers vs AWS Lambda. I personally wouldn’t consider what you built a Geolocation service, but glad it solved your use case!

Thanks!

Re: I made a simple geolocation service

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Post by speedgoose » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 8:17 AM UTC

Well that's a bit more than 2 requests per second on average. Sure you may have some bursts once in a while, but nothing a 3€ VM can't manage IMHO.

Re: I made a simple geolocation service

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Post by pereiratr » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 8:21 AM UTC

Nice! Have you tried AWS Lambda@Edge?

Re: I made a simple geolocation service

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Post by wingi » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 8:24 AM UTC

I had a geo-location service running in google app engine. for free. After pimping caching the daily traffic of 400.000 requests/day was in the free-tier.

https://www.united-coders.com/christian-harms/detailed-perfo...

Re: I made a simple geolocation service

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Post by pereiratr » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 8:24 AM UTC

pereiratr wrote: post #8

Nice! Have you tried AWS Lambda@Edge?

and it looks like similar geolocation info "cloudfront-viewer-country" is available from AWS as well. So similar trick maybe possible with AWS https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...