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I applaud your efforts but it's disingenuous to title this how you "made a geolocation service" when you are just reading a field in someone else's geolocation service.
It's a nice solution. Why log into your alt account to crap on it?
Google App Engine had this quite a while ago (almost a decade, I think)and a very generous free tier. Also has approx lat-long, city, state and country. https://blip.runway7.net https://github.com/runway7/blip I lost track of the consumer apps I've used this on and still haven't received a $1+ bill.
Is there a good lat/lon to timezone database that lets you leverage this into a presumptive timezone offset from UTC and thus local time?
I (like many others it seems!) have also built a geolocation service however mine is built on top of MaxMind's DBs that are mentioned in the post. Its on a few boxes running OpenResty and now handles 130m+ requests/day. Was really fun to build! https://github.com/jloh/geojs https://www.geojs.io/open/
It's forbidden by MaxMind ToS, these dudes changed the rules and forces you to abide to the new conditions when you download an update. It's very borderline from them (at least ethically)
I applaud your efforts but it's disingenuous to title this how you "made a geolocation service" when you are just reading a field in someone else's geolocation service.
Indeed. Using another service and being a wrapper around it is not all that impressive. He is also using workers which makes his solution expensive. I run ifconfig.io which now gets just over a billion hits a day. It is basically an echo service, and it just parrots back what cloudflare tells it. But since I run it on linode, it costs me a whopping $40 dollars a month for 35 billion returns a month. Using workers wou…
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GP and you aren't using the same definition of cloud. By cloud, they mean infrastuctures like AWS/GCP/Azure, not simple VM hosting (called VPS outside "clouds", and compute nodes in "clouds")
What's the definition of "cloud" then which excludes VPS from the umbrella of services offered in cloud? Not really sure how a VPS is any different from a Google Compute Engine
So "cloud" is like renting a dynamically changing number of VPSs each month and which are usually more costly if your consumption is not spiky (eg. when a cheap VPS rented 24/7 is enough).
Also please see https://github.com/analogic/ipgeo daily actualized ip/country database with open license (shameless ad)
That would be a lot more appealing if it explained where the data is sourced from, included the update scripts, and how it is licensed - the only issue asking that question was closed without a word.
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Indeed. Using another service and being a wrapper around it is not all that impressive. He is also using workers which makes his solution expensive. I run ifconfig.io which now gets just over a billion hits a day. It is basically an echo service, and it just parrots back what cloudflare tells it. But since I run it on linode, it costs me a whopping $40 dollars a month for 35 billion returns a month. Using workers wou…
He could have used the CF cache API in the worker, which would drop the cost quite a lot.
What would you cache it cheaper?
No matter what his worker needs the smallest time/memory slot there is. You cannot make it cheaper while still using workers.
Regarding latency of AWS Lambda: > on average the response took somewhere between from 200ms to 500ms I'm getting latency of 66ms to 126ms with some simple Java code running on AWS Lambda using provisioned concurrency. I find the latency is just fine for most use cases.
"using provisioned concurrency" What's the point of using Lambda if you have to provision capacity for it? You pay a premium on the compute because it's able to scale down to zero (so in theory, it works out cheaper anyway), but in reality it only works well when you do everything in your power to have it not scale down to zero.
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Installing updates and stuff is easy to automate.
And sometimes automatic updates break and then the site may be down until you find the problem which may require much reading and therefore a longer time if you don't deal with sysadmin stuff often. With PaaS it's someone else's job who does this every day.
I got sent a (frustratingly incorrect) bot reply to a ticket and a reminder that Enterprise / Business / Pro customers are priority (in that order) even though I pay for Workers. It has been an uphill battle to get someone to take a look at the ticket so far. Thankfully, we haven't gone to production yet, but as a consequence, now need to plan to add mitigation in scenarios where Workers blacks-out our traffic (but Support can't be of immediate help because "free customer").
[0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/workers-and-sub-requests/...