IP-Country Database Information Offline Permanently
I have been getting a great deal of interest in the IP-to-Country data that I have been working on over the last few years. However, I have had to take this data down from my site.
- The bandwidth costs are starting to become noticeable
- My old hardware is starting to creak under the weight
- There are commercial sources for this data, and frankly, I say more power to them if they can make money of this; I sure haven’t
It’s been a depressing week here in the Newest Industry Factory, and we are starting to have to dim the lights in some corners, turn off some of the machines, and [gulp!] consider other drastic measures.
To paraphrase the Bare Naked Ladies: “All this food ain’t free”.
I apologize for the inconvenience, and hope that I can re-activate these pages in the future.
UPDATE: GrabIP is now back up, but limited to 5 requests in a 24-hour period.
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Why not establish a membership rather than a donation? I for one would join for a resonable fee, since I like your interface much better than most of the commercial sites. Take a look at the added cost and see if you can do a membership for a month, quarter, year. Then we can also provide input and comments to a forum on b0thersome IPs and such. Perhaps you could actually make some money on this. Use PayPal and it may work. How much traffic are you looking at? If I can help, let me know, I can’t let the traffic handicap me, but I could host some of the stuff and share with you.
Bob
Bob Madore
May 7 2005 at 12:37
Bob
Bob Madore
May 7 2005 at 12:37