One option is to get Google to up the quote for the proxy. Google have been amenable to raising quotes for well known proxies. First point of contact is probably Pamala Fox - and just mentioning her name should be enough get the thread noticed.
On 16/07/2009, BigJoeTX <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just wanted to leave one final update after spending the majority of > the day tracking this problem down. We talked to our hosting company > (Mosso / Rackspace Cloud - http://www.rackspacecloud.com/) and every > single site hosted by these guys goes out of the same two IP > addresses. I'm 99.9% sure now that this is problem, especially since > we tested our code on a different server and it worked. > > If you're Geocoding on your sites using php, you might think twice > about using Rackspace Cloud. > > Thanks again for all the help, > Joe > > > On Jul 16, 11:30 am, BigJoeTX <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If that's your actual live PHP code, then I strongly recommend not > > > re-geocoding your address every time someone opens your page. Delete all > > > that geocoding and use > > > > > $latitude=30.627425; > > > $longitude=-96.304859; > > > > That code was just test code I set up that I tried to make as simple > > as possible to avoid anything else that might be messed up. In > > practice, that code would write the longitude and latitude to a > > database when our sales team submits an new entry. Those are then > > called into our main site from the database. > > > > Like I said, we have a limited number of entries per day, 500 at the > > most across all of our sites were we use the geocoding service. > > > > Also, I think this: > > > > > From the server, the calls are counted against the quota associated with > > > your Google API key. So if you've got 2,000 users and they all use your > > > page to perform 10 geocodes each, then your daily 15,000 quota gets > > > exceeded, and you get error 620 for 24 hours. > > > > Might conflict with what Google says here (I found that not too long > > ago):http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=93464&topic=12266 > > > > Or I'm totally misunderstanding what Google is trying to say. > > > > - Joe > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Mike Williamshttp://econym.org.uk/gmap > > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
