Geolocation is determining the approximate or exact physical location of a person or object.
Geolocation is determining the approximate or exact physical location of a person or object.
Questions tagged [geolocation]
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php5-geoip performance issue
I installed the php5-geoip module on Ubuntu 10.04 via apt-get install php5-geoip. I've updated the geocities.dat library
The production server performance decreased and load average is soaring. Before the install it was less than 1 for the same…
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Advantage of having a secondary DNS next to client's country?
We are considering moving one of our two DNS our clients use to the country where 90% of them live (the other will stay in the US).
Do you think they'll notice an advantage of site loading performance? Even if it's small, we would like to know if…
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Google DNS Geolocation Issue
I work on a ISP in Africa. Our customers were being redirected to Google cache in South Africa. Apparently with no reason, they start being redirected to Google US, which for us has higher latencies (avg: 400 ms).
How can I contact Google to fix…
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When using DNS from another continent, will IP's and CDN's reflect host country as well?
Lets say I am using Russia’s Yandex DNS from Canada, or America.
Will I be served IP's and CDN's that reflect the host country of said DNS?
And will they tend to be nearer to that nation?
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RDP latency optimisation on worldwide connections
I'm wondering how bigger companys are working around this challenge.
Our company gets bigger and therefore we're starting to expand in new countries.
Now a new branch office opened straight at the other site of the globe. Of course these Users need…
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How to whitelist headers in IIS filtering?
We're looking at deploying CloudFlare as a WAF for our site. One of the requirements is that we restrict access to the site from outside North America. Fortunately, CloudFlare supports GeoLocation, and stamps requests to the origin server with a…
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Arvixe claims that my physical host is located in Europe eventhough the whois information
When I look whois of the site it seems like located in US.
My site is: www.evdore.com.
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2 hos-tr1.juniper1.rz13.hetzner.de 213.239.224.1 de 0.145 ms
hos-tr4.juniper2.rz13.hetzner.de 213.239.224.97 de 0.277 ms …
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HAProxy parsing errors
i have 3 servers
--> haproxy - server1(uk)
- server2(ru)
i followed this tutorial and created ip for ru.subnets
now in my /etc/haproxy i have these files:
haproxy.conf
ru.subnets
in my haproxy.conf:
frontend http-frontend
bind …
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AWStats process dies while processing large logs
I have really large nginx log files - as much as 250MB.
When I have ran like 10 days of the month of log files - then the next daily logs would cause my awstats to die. Like so:
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=mydomain.com -update
....
Flush…
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Location aware DNS with Bind9
I'm currently running a front-end caching server powered by Varnish. It serves up a few websites. I'm using Bind to serve DNS requests. The first server is located in the Netherlands, where as a new server I just acquired is located in the US. Is it…
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Distributed webservice, geolocalized access
I wish I could deploy a very low network latency webservice (running Linux).
I was thinking about distributing some instances amongst several dedicated servers (eventually VMs, but not the preferred solution) around the globe. Eg. one in Europe, one…
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Is there a way to use .htaccess to block access to a country?
Is there a way to use .htaccess to block access to a country?
I have been asked to keep our server from allowing requests to download a certain file from being downloaded from the US. Downloading from any other country is fine.
Is there a way to do…
Eskil Mjelva Saatvedt
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How do I deliver different content to country IP addresses?
We have been asked by a client to deliver different content (warnings, "this page unavailable" pages, etc) to French users due to a new French law. This needs to be implemented by Jan 1.
On the server side, how is this done? We are running IIS on…
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GeoIP and Nginx
I have a nginx with geoip, but it is not working rightly. The issue is the next:
Nginx are getting geodata from $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] instead of $_SERVER['HTTP_X_HAPROXY_IP'], which have the real client ip. So, the reported geodata belongs to my…
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IP addresses for Windows Azure servers seem to be from the US, when the servers are supposed to be located in Europe
I have a couple of test servers on Windows Azure. One is in the North Europe location and the other is in West Europe. I yet to get around to testing which location offers better connection speeds from where I am (London, UK).
The Northern Europe…
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