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Hi Kasbah, :) Several. - The Global infrastructure backing ipdata.co is pretty impressive, 4 data centers in the US, 1 in Canada, 2 in Europe and 1 each in Mum
by jonathan-kosgei 9y ago
Hi Kasbah, :) Several.
- The Global infrastructure backing ipdata.co is pretty impressive, 4 data centers in the US, 1 in Canada, 2 in Europe and 1 each in Mumbai, Sydney and Seoul.
- We offer more datapoints, I tried to build this around the most common use cases for Geolocation, one of which is showing your users the right currency. This is something we provide, that is, the currency ISO code and symbol.
- I think our API is pretty darn fast :)
Your pros;
You offer more data formats, csv and xml whereas we only offer JSON.
You offer a pretty high free tier but I think there's definitely tonnes of people who derive a lot of value from ipdata :)
- kasbah 9y agoThanks for you answer. To clarify: Freegeopip is not my project but it's pretty easy (for someone who knows how to run a Linux server) to host your own instance.
- jonathan-kosgei 9y agoMy bad! Sorry about that. That's definitely an option, however there're definitely users who'd rather not do it themselves and would benefit from our global infrastructure and not having to bother with updates.
- dylz 9y ago1) freegeoip is locally hosted - unlimited queries 2) OK. 3) freegeoip is faster and locally hosted - no network latency The entire thing runs as a one command docker instance - database updates are automatically managed
- jonathan-kosgei 9y agoI don't mean to take anything away from freegeoip, this is basically the self-hosted vs external API debate that I've already responded to here. In short, there're cases where each solution shines more than the other.
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