I haven't been an actual admin in years (do sales now) but Gasmask is great for managing multiple hosts files so you can easily hop between overrides. Source: about 1 year ago

Then another thing I use is https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask which is basically a multiple /etc/hosts editor (in case you're using Mac OS). But Windows/Linux must have their own alternatives. Basically I put fancy names here, like nameofyourproject.localhost or something like that. Source: almost 2 years ago

Damn I got gasMask to use the host file on my mac. Source: almost 3 years ago

IP Geolocation — IP Geolocation API - Forever free plan for developers with 30k requests per month (1k/day) limit. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

I wouldn't be trying to do this by scraping. Instead, just use an API: https://ipgeolocation.io/. Source: about 1 year ago

Https://ipgeolocation.io/ I run my own DNS server, so query processing would not be the problem. Source: over 1 year ago

IP Geolocation — IP Geolocation API - Forever free plan for developers with 30k requests per month (1k/day) limit. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

Getting a user's location from their IP should be possible with something like this https://ipgeolocation.io/ (free for up to 1000 requests per day which my puny website will never get). Latitude + longitude data from this service could be used to place the location dot accurately on the globe, although I'd have to look more into the math aspect of that before. This will probably be one of the harder parts to... Source: almost 2 years ago