Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question I temporarily moved from London to Milan. Despite keeping Google Uk as preferred search engine; Because of the location; I get more feeds, … Read more
I’m setting up a new server for a website. I want to ensure that my users’ privacy is well protected (at least from my side). Initially I wanted to not track IP addresses at all. However, I need some rough estimation of the user’s location so that I know where in the world to place … Read more
I’m using various things on GCP APIs and the gelocation for www.googleapis.com appears to be wrong: PING www.googleapis.com (172.217.169.138) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from sof02s32-in-f10.1e100.net (172.217.169.138): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=112 ms ^C — www.googleapis.com ping statistics — 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 112.008/112.008/112.008/0.000 ms 138.169.217.172.in-addr.arpa domain … Read more
I am not a penetration tester but I was listening to some SANS lectures that someone has uploaded to the web. The lecturer said that pen testers and their lawyer should be very careful not to break the law of the countries the packets travel through as it might be illegal to send crafted packages … Read more
I created one google vm machine engine instance in eu-west1-b region. In GCP Console seems to be in eu-west1-b region. However when I try to gelocate my ip’s they seem to be in somewhere in China. The IP of the server is: 35.241.151.245 I read a similar case in: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44829340/my-google-app-instances-does-not-seem-to-be-on-correct-region# But, i dont see a … Read more
I’m renting a linux cloud server at a larger server provider somewhere in the US. I do not have physical access to the server – I have no idea where it is. Customer support wasn’t able to pinpoint the exact datacenter that the server is located in. Given remote access to the server, what options … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 10 years ago. Improve this question So, we’re looking to develop a mobile website. On this mobile website, we’d like to automatically populate a user’s location (with proper fallback) … Read more
Not sure the best place for this one, so feel free to migrate to a more appropriate location if one exists. OK so the situation is: We have a corporate network, joining sites in the UK, France, Poland and India via MPLS, supplied by Redstone (London). Sat here in Derby UK, google thinks i’m in … Read more
Because of legal protection, as a first stage of launching my project I will focus on couple of countries only. The number of supported countries will grow. I know, it is possible to block or allow whole countries through iptables and geoip. However, on top of this function, I would need to inform the blocked … Read more
We are an ecommerce store with 95% of our customers located in switzerland. Right now we are hosting in germany (Servers in Berlin) and thinking about hosting in switzerland. The cost is almost the same – so it´s just a matter of speed. Is there a huge difference between locations only 900km far away? I … Read more
