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GeoIP / Maxmind

I kept getting told off for over using Maxmind DB. With to many requests to them and about 5 projects requesting IP address data we needed to do something.

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Started 17 Oct 2026 · 18:58 · updated 17 Oct 2026 · 19:06
GeoIP / Maxmind
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Well One of the problems with internet problems is we keep downloading the Maxmind DB to many times. Let's stop the email and build a LXC container that handles it.

To add on to this mindless thing, I now got 1 LXC hosted on Proxmox that handles this. It will go off and get the data once a day at a random period early in the morning. From here I can abuse the API the LXC is providing. I can scale and descale it as needed. Plus also helps secure a few other little projects.

Well I have a API added on that goes off and lets other projects talk to this. We also grabbing some other DB from maxmind. To comply this is not a public connection it only accessible via stuff with in my network(s). I say network(s) as I got stuff in a few locations that link up.