>3,000,000 hits per day and not a single penny in revenue
 

Hit another milestone yesterday - 3.2million lookups yesterday... and by the looks of it a new one will be made tomorrow.

geoplugin.com - yup maxmind offers te free db as well, but well, 3 million lookups say gp offers a better service :winkwink:

That is rather borked.

time for the old bait and switch, eh?

yeah, you got borked

nah, not at all into that. Some of the more db intensive queries I may make as a payable option if I need a server upgrade, but atm, the server is handling 3.5mill hits in its stride, so no reason to charge for something that is costing me nothing (besides hosting) but obviously helping a lot of people.

I remember talking to you... but I don't remember if you knew how to do these lookups in Flash Actionscript??? I need help with GEO lookup and Flash... I have a great flash guy, who is good in actionscript... But he doesn't know how to do geo lookups.

Time to cash in on those visitors..

How about adding some adsense ads on that page?

nah, adsense is useless - the .com page actually only gets about 3-500 visits per day. It's the webservice (the .net) that gets all the hits.

There is a way to monetise it if needed - most of the lookups use the javascript service (65% javascript, 25% php, 8% xml and 2% json). A client js call to my server does mean I could skim.

But I won't. No reason to - the service only allows an avg of 100k lookups per day (auto-script in place to blacklist IPs that are going to be avergaing more than that). Those that genuinely need more I give them and they actually do donate.

So, nah. Won't monetise cos it would never have grown to help so many people had I made it a paid for service. It's about 4-5 years too late to make $ off this, but I don't care. All's good.

np Jason, I can certainly help you advance in these and your other areas - this affiliate programme is going to be a killer :thumbsup

It would be pretty easy to consume xml from custom php script that you could pass the ip to and return the geo info.

This looks good man... I have been thinking about doing the same thing for zipcode lookups. I developed a database for a swinger site that I run that returns results based on distance.

Damm ...

ad a banner from boostultra.ca and I'll pay ya $20 a bottle sold .. !!

Pb with that is, it's restricted to that country, no? Worldwide zip code lookups are such a pain as they are a nightmare to get hold of due to copyright restrictions.

I made one that isn't too shabby for gp that is geographical based (when available, it does return zip) - gave rise to nearby places service:

http://www.geoplugin.com/geoexamples/geogirl/

(edit: non-us people may appreciate this gif more)

is that a "naked mole rat" .. i love those things .. LOL

hahaha - yeah!

you should be selling your product to dating sites, its much more valid than the current one, no dating sites have gotten my city, yours did

Not too hard. Add me to ICQ and I'll code one up for you quickly :thumbsup

Pfffft, the cheek! :disgust Just cos it;s your birthday doesn't give you the right to steal my jobs :firehair

cheers bud - I tried that, but they all were like "yeah we have geo, it works, it sells", but blind to the fact that there are different levels of accuracy. Plus I have a much more expansive world database for the nearby locations lookup and my geospatial index/query is hot giving damn fast results.

But no, cos their db gives satisfactory results for their place they reckon their db is good enough :(

bump this kickass service

So you're basically doing good, huh?

how do i get to use your services?

XonDemand
 

Hit me up and I will help you make money off 3,000,000 hits a day


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whatcha want man - just hit me up I'm always around :thumbsup

--edit and yeah, sorry but forgot to let you know that since Jan, I'm back freelancing