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Originally Posted by I don't have a username
You can also just connect to an IPtracer and get the information from there?
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Are you serious? You would gain absolutely nothing by connecting to an online service compared to using something on your own host. You would actually lose a lot of time even more than 1 second considering the latency and the service's queue.
I understand that you like the 'cloud' but we don't make a server for one player only. If you were to do an application that does a certain function you may use an online service but considering the forum we are writing on, using online services is the worst idea you could think of (obviously if there is no offline alternative it's understandable). Seriously, let's see pros and cons for offline and online services.
Offline services (MaxMind's LiteGeoCity db):
Pro:
-gives results in a matter of milliseconds
-offline, you can run it on any pc and get the information for a given IP address
Con:
-could be out-dated (MaxMind updates the database every Tuesday of every month)
Online serives (eg. ip-tracker.com)
Pro:
-up to date at all times
Con:
-to get a result you will wait atleast one second because of latency and serivce's handle queue
Please fill the list more if you think there's more to it.