Show HN: Written in Rust – Self hosted and fast GeoIP service with auto updates

[alisinabh]

https://github.com/alisinabh/atlas

[scosman]

Oh awesome. Self hosting geo-ip is so nice, but updating the DB is a pain. Great idea.

[reincoder → scosman]

That is why our (IPinfo) data downloads just point to a storage URI. The download command is essentially:

curl -L https://ipinfo.io/data/free/country.mmdb?token=token -o country.mmdb

[alisinabh → scosman]

Yeah exactly. In all years of my experience I have seen different implementation of this which is hard to maintain. I hope this can help developers to keep their focus on the actual problems that they are solving.

[iudqnolq]

Looks neat. Might replace the slightly hacky cloudfront viewer request function I use to do this on my personal projects.

[alisinabh → iudqnolq]

Thanks. Please share your experience if you ended up using it. I will be more than happy to address any issues you might face or any concerns and suggestions you have.