[fedora-websites] #209: use geolocation to pick default ec2 region on getfedora page

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#209: use geolocation to pick default ec2 region on getfedora page
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 Reporter:  mattdm       |       Owner:  webmaster
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  Fedora 20
Component:  General      |  Resolution:
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Comment (by gholms):

 If it's using geo-IP data for the sake of sorting a list differently then
 I think that makes sense.  I very much recommend avoiding using it to
 ''hide'' things, because that wouldn't match up with the way people use
 AWS, where people are often cognizant of regions and choose more distant
 one for reasons like preexisting resources in other regions, multi-region
 redundancy, and especially pricing.

 Location alone may also not be the best metric.  For instance, São Paulo's
 pricing is so awful that even Brazilians frequently avoid it, so using
 that region as the default for all of South America just because it is
 closer is not necessarily the best choice.  At the moment I can't think of
 an alternative that is strictly objective, though.  :-\

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