timvisee / send-instances

🌍 A list of public Send instances. Mirror.
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Show the server location of the public instances #31

Closed tdulcet closed 1 year ago

tdulcet commented 1 year ago

Consider showing the server location of all the public Send instances listed on the README. I have gotten several e-mails over the last couple of years asking where your send.vis.ee instance is located, so it seems this is something people want to know for privacy/security reasons. Instances closer to the user's location should also be faster when uploading and downloading files. I believe showing just the country name and/or flag would be acceptable for these users. For example, maybe something like "Netherlands 🇳🇱" for your instance.

There are of course many free Geolocation databases that could potentially be used to directly lookup the sever location, as well as online services such as Flagfox/Geotool or IP2Location. I would be happy to create a PR, but for accuracy, it probably would be best of this information was provided by the instance maintainers themselves, as some may be hosted behind a CDN such as Cloudflare that hide/obscure the actual server location.