freegeoip

Good luck. I'm running a Go app (https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip) on a single f1-micro in Google Cloud for my startup. It works, no problems, no fuss, but certainly can see lots of people paying for GeoIP. Maybe focus on creating a Heroku plugin?

There are many ways to quickly get and use a GeoIP DB like MaxMind, most requiring way less than 20 minutes. This is just one example of something I started using recently: docker run -p 8080:8080 -d fiorix/freegeoip curl localhost:8080/json/1.2.3.4 (Repo: https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip)

Looks good, but a lot of setup and configuration to get going. We (https://commando.io) use https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip in production and it has been amazing. Freegeoip is super easy to setup, go. It auto-fetches source data from MaxMind, supports https, and has rate limiting capability.

It shouldn't be free, it should be reasonably priced so you don't run out of money and can keep this thing running for years to come. There's huge demand for it - just search for geoip on Github. Some more pointers are here [0],[1]. So many projects, but most of them work with Maxmind data, which is the problem. Inconsistencies in the data they provide makes it painful to make performant fallback solutions. Performance across geolocations and lack thereof in "exotic" geos is another one. It seems none of these services is deployed across the globe. There's a need for a blazing fast, reliable service with granular, comprehensive data, that is performing well for millions of requests across the globe, be it for mobile or web traffic. I found a great base[2] and I think Go is a perfect language for this kind of service. Here are the free che

Looks like no immediate fix either, which is a shame as I wanted to use it client side but (a) need SSL and (b) can't ignore Chrome (it fails on Chrome for Android latest too).. https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip/issues/32

I also like how freegeoip is open source so you can run your own instance: https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip

Author of freegeoip.net here. It uses the db from MaxMind. Worth mentioning that the system is not only free but also open source, available at github.com/fiorix/freegeoip (currently written in Go)

GitHub issues as their best. https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip/issues/22 Thanks guys for implementing it.

There's an open issue for IPv6 on GitHub: https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip/issues/21

I’ve had good (but not great) results from https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip . It has you download the database from http://mirrors.ipinfodb.com/ipinfodb/ip_database/current/ipi... , which doesn’t appear to be officially linked anymore (http://ipinfodb.com/ip_database.php).