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Originally posted by barryf
May I ask then what is the difference between ip-sorter and maxmind?
Thanks,
B
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Maxmind supply the databae of IP-country translations, and some code required to access the database (so you have to write your own software).
IP-Sorter takes the maxmind data, and puts it into a set of scripts that are more usable by the average webmaster.
IP-Sorter costs $300, $150 of which is the price for the premium edition (updates each month) data from maxmind. The other $150 is the price for our software. (so if you've got the data already from maxmind, you could buy our software for $150).
Even for the perl/php programmers, we supply a shell tool (
http://ip-sorter.com/tour/extend.htm) that they can use to extend their own scripts.
The other big benefit of IP-Sorter, is that all our software is coded in C, so its pretty shit hot when it comes to performance figures (tested with 5,000,000/day simulation, took a 0.00 `top` load average to 0.50, and was using 50% of the resources).
I think its worth the extra $150 to get a high performance, stable, webmaster interface to the db
