I expected there to be an abstracted, general, repeatable tldr that can be reapplied as a mental model. I haven't digested the whole thing, but after skimming, I can't identify what it is.
it's kind of more like the beginning of a pattern language for why things seem hard to novices but simple to experts, and ways to mitigate those effects - a different mitigation is appropriate for each pattern
Your comment is extremely interesting and what I was hoping to learn from the article (without an existing source of information, how do we determine the location of an IP address). Thank you!
The only update is the number of servers is like 600+ now. The probe network is growing extremely rapidly.
Our IP geolocation process is quite complicated, and we have a team of data engineers, infrastructure engineers, and data scientists working on various aspects of it. Therefore, our approach is users can ask us questions, and we will try our best to answer them.
Just wanted to let you know, it's this transparency that turned me into a customer!
I love your company and service, but I hate your pricing. I work with a lot of small clients/apps that paying for usage would be a no-brainer, but the defined monthly price buckets don't make any economical sense at their scale. If you added a "pay as you go" tier that a small app could reasonably start by using dollars worth of API calls per month and grow from there, I'd be spreading your seed all over the place. I'm not saying this to rag on you, just trying to provide some constructive feedback as a thank you for your info sharing!
Thank you very much; I really appreciate your feedback. This is not the first time I have heard this. The solution is to try to take as much advantage as you can from the free tier.
The free databases come with commercial usage permission, and because they are databases, you can make unlimited lookups from them. The databases provide full accuracy and are updated daily. They are just a subset of our IP geolocation database that only provides IP to Country information.
# Complement the database with the API service
If you only want city-level information, switch to the API service. Use the database to look up IP-to-country information as many times as you want. However, use the API service only when necessary.
All of our API libraries have native caching support. We strongly recommend that users reduce their number of requests by caching the response. I highly recommend you check out our libraries: https://github.com/ipinfo
---
The only challenge with the free IP databases is that you need to host the database somewhere to lookup the IP to Country information. Having an API service with nearly unlimited lookups for IP to Country information will be fantastic.
If you know someone who has an IP to Country as API service please, let me know. We only require an attribution for using our database. If you have a similar service that is popular but don't want to maintain it let us know as well, we can takeover the site and host it ourselves with the IP to Country data.
You can download complete Linux VM images that just work from the net. VirtualBox is free and is installed in 5 minutes. It's hardly frustrating. Certainly less so than getting a RPi up and running, not to mention you end up with an odd, underpowered device secondary to your regular machine.
That's not to say the RPi isn't an interesting, rewarding experience on its own merits -- that's why I got one --, but I wouldn't recommend it to anybody interested primarily in getting a *nix environment for experimentation or programming.
I have DSL at home. Will it work on that or will I have to upgrade to
something faster?
You need about 80kbps both ways to hold a call. The more bandwidth the better
for improved call quality. Don’t forget that streaming video or downloading
large files all use bandwidth, so your mileage may vary if you are trying to
make or receive calls and watch Netflix at the same time.
Sounds like it's more likely that your gaming or Netflix would adversely affect the phone than the other way around, though a router with QoS should fix that easily enough.
