[joekrill]

This is really important. Particularly because Maxmind can be used locally and their free dataset is actually pretty accurate for most use cases.

[lluft]

Agree. Nothing beats running it locally in regards to latency constraints.

[jonathan-kosgei]

Please see my reply to mywittyname above, basically, there are certain situations where being able to take advantage of our globally distributed infrastructure is the best call and I 100% agree that there are situations where using a local db is simply the best (only) call.