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The cheapest alternative has to be to ask the users where they are and store it on the user device? I never understood the need for geoip unless you ship spyware. If the exact location is important geoip is not accurate enough anyway. Forwarding to regional sites automatically is just annoying when it doesn't work properly or someone is traveling abroad.
I guess it’s ok for a basic consumer website, although it’s not exactly equivalent to ip geocoder databases/services - they allow passing ip addresses as part of geocoding request.
The cheapest alternative has to be to ask the users where they are and store it on the user device? I never understood the need for geoip unless you ship spyware. If the exact location is important geoip is not accurate enough anyway. Forwarding to regional sites automatically is just annoying when it doesn't work properly or someone is traveling abroad.
However, there's a lot of use cases that semi-accurate geo-locations make sense. The first of which is analytics. If I'm a marketing person at a SaaS company, I want to know where my customers physically are if possible for a variety of useful reasons.
Good quality estimates for location also help with security and compliance use cases as well. If a user logs in from a new country on the opposite of the world, you can flag that and take whatever action you want whether it's to block them, fire off an email to the person who owns the account or whatever.
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"Application error An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details. You can do this from the Heroku CLI with the command heroku logs --tail"
The cheapest alternative has to be to ask the users where they are and store it on the user device? I never understood the need for geoip unless you ship spyware. If the exact location is important geoip is not accurate enough anyway. Forwarding to regional sites automatically is just annoying when it doesn't work properly or someone is traveling abroad.
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I always find it funny when people brag about cost savings on cloud services while overlooking the insane premium they're paying by using the "cloud" to begin with. It's kinda like a construction firm using a supercar to haul materials and then bragging about their efforts to make cosmetic repairs cost-effective... maybe you could just not use an overpriced car to begin with and then damage won't be an issue?
The main advantage of the cloud for me that it provides PaaS services. You don't have to administer a VM, etc, you just use the services and it's someone else's job to install security updates and stuff.
The cheapest alternative has to be to ask the users where they are and store it on the user device? I never understood the need for geoip unless you ship spyware. If the exact location is important geoip is not accurate enough anyway. Forwarding to regional sites automatically is just annoying when it doesn't work properly or someone is traveling abroad.
Of course, you can just get around this with a VPN.
[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/reference/apis/req...
[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...
[3] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/referenc...