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pro.ip-api.com is not capturing data sent by the extension, they already have this data. see ip-api.com

My first thought was for better 3D Google maps, ie rendering of the buildings.

How much network latency is between you and the load balancer, and between the load balancer and the web servers? Normally, the initial TLS connection should be around 4 * the network latency, and subsequent requests should be very close to the network latency.

Give httping [0] a try for benchmarks.

[0]: https://www.vanheusden.com/httping/

I'm having issues reaching IP addresses unrelated to Cloudflare. Based on some traceroutes, it seems AS174 (Cogent) and AS3356 (Level 3) are experiencing major outages.

ip-api.com was also affected by this. After our first alert at 10:49 (cert expired at 10:48:38) and a minute of being puzzled as to why our certificate expired, we realized the root we bundled is the issue. We finished updating our primary API servers at 10:55.

Our email has been down for more than 3 hours. There hasn't been an update on their status page for a while. Kinda disappointed.

This isn't on the level of some other providers, they'll still null route you if you go over an unspecified amount of traffic. IIRC they use Juniper and Corero.

This is the reply I got from their support, just a few days ago:

>In short, our DDoS protection works by filtering out DoS-like traffic and is applied via the Linode network, so all Linodes are automatically protected. If your server were to be on the receiving end of a larger attack that impacts the Linode's host, we would need to prevent your server from receiving traffic until the attack ends. If you're concerned that you might be the target of a large DoS attack, there are a number of third-party DDoS mitigation services that you can use alongside your Linode.

>We aren't able to provide specific numbers since effects can vary depending on the attack. If you wanted to be sure your Linode is protected, we would recommend utilizing a third-party DDoS protection service overtop of your Linode's included protection. You also have the option of waiting to apply third-party protection until a null route is found to be necessary.

I'd love a service that puts me in touch (for a fee) with an engineer/someone above level 1-2 support from Google/Amazon/huge corps

When dealing with companies that are above a certain size, it takes days or weeks to get to someone that can fix issues, but if you're lucky and you have a friend that knows someone who works there he can expedite your ticket. This service would work like that, a friend that puts you in touch with people hired at big corps.

I'm aware this service would have a number of potential issues, such as how to get employees on the platform without annoying their employers, or how to prevent abuse/bribes, but if somebody find a way..

As a small business owner, this terrifies me. Since the TTL for NS records is 48 hours, a domain takeover like this could easily bankrupt a lot of SaaS companies.

What options are there to prevent this? Would a registrar such as MarkMonitor provide at least some notice or protection?

A mix of VPS and dedicated servers: 2 in EU, 3 in USA and 1 in Asia. Highly optimized stack.

Some live stats http://ip-api.com/docs/statistics

Since there is no authentication done for the free service I can't really track users, but just to give you some numbers, the free API serves over 10 billion HTTP requests/month. An educated guess would be 5% of users ended up paying.

Initially, I just wanted to make the service pay for itself (hosting, dev., data mining costs) and allow me to dedicate some time to provide support to users, so I asked myself, as a dev/company, how much would I pay for this service. I started with €80/year, and doubled the prices a few months later, to €160 (€13/month). The price increase seemed like a good business move, and surprisingly, the number of sales improved as a result.

I launched a free API 4 years ago, and in January 2015 I introduced paid plans, which offered several benefits over the free service.

I have done no actual marketing, but the website ranks somewhat okay in search queries. It keeps growing every month, and recently passed $10k/month in profits. This is from pretty much word of mouth via stackoverflow or from google searches.

From this experience I can say that if your service is competitively priced, good, and needed by a somewhat large audience, even with no marketing you can turn a profit really fast.

Same problem from Romania, can't access major sites.

Seems[1] to be a problem with Telia

[1] https://paste.ee/r/M4iJa

Did you block "ip-api.com"? Via hosts or some ad blocker?

What about stairs/raised sidewalks?

ip-api guy here.

> It seems none of these services is deployed across the globe

Our free service has servers in USA, EU and Asia

> 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.

We have more than 2 billion requests per month!

Can anyone predict how this will affect Windows Phone?

edns-client-subnet (if present) can catch some frauds, too.

I'll stick with internetbs [1], $8.49-8.99/year for .com and free private registration.

1: https://internetbs.net/domain_names_usd.html

Christmas.

They aren't asking for your "credit card" no, are they? Just starbucks cards.

Actual info about the new ReCAPTCHA at https://github.com/neuroradiology/InsideReCaptcha (original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8722846)

Some of those are answered here: https://my.jarvys.io/docs/home