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Chose London, but IP location is in the US
I have very limited knowledge in any of this but in simple words, it just so happens to be that when I’m connected to my VPN, it shows up on ipcim.com that I am in the US and not the UK as I specified when setting up my VPN connection. As a result I cannot log on to certain sites that are restricted to people in the US. The weird bit is that it used to work just fine yesterday. Should I be worried about any security issues or do I have to destroy the existing droplet and create a new one?
Thanks in advance!
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When you create a droplet on the LON datacenter, the droplet is created in London. There’s no security issue.
But why is my IP location in the US (somewhere in Kansas)? I cannot log on to sites because of that.
GeoIP databases are usually very inaccurate. You can try contacting DO, but I’m not sure if there’s something they can do.
I have the exact same problem, I’m using my droplet for fetching data from Europe sites which are not avaible in USA. So I effectively cannot use my droplet in London datacenter.