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> edit: Just noticed that the Hetzner server in VA geolocates wrong and chooses servers in Kansas. This is a common failure mode of geolocation, especially as
by vitus 5y ago
> edit: Just noticed that the Hetzner server in VA geolocates wrong and chooses servers in Kansas.
This is a common failure mode of geolocation, especially as it pertains to cloud providers. The databases can guess which country the IP address corresponds to, but not anything more (and as such, they default to something in the middle of the country).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_center_of_the_United_States#Contiguous_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_center_of_the_Unite...
Geolocation data tends to be worse for cloud providers for whatever reason (I believe it's a combination of differing Internet footprint characteristics, as well as IP aggregation mismatch on behalf of the geolocation database).
(Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island for another common geolocation placeholder)