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IP Location and the content
I've got a dedicated based on the USA. I have checked the IPs and it shows the USA as a location; nevertheless, google and the other certain webpages show it as the United Arab Emirates, and google is in Arabic! I know how to change it (google's settings of language) nevertheless, every restart it turns back. Even Bing sees my location as in UAE. What should I do?
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See what the most popular geo-IP databases are outputting here: https://www.iplocation.net/
Also check MaxMind: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo
Updates then need to be submitted for any inaccurate geo-IP data. Whether you or your host does this is something you'd be best off checking with them on.
If you can share the IP address, we could help you to troubeshoot the issue.
@hostworld @mikec thank you very much. I've contacted my service provider, which I do not want to state the name obviously because of the fact that they are in the business and I do not want to make them hurt. In MaxMind's GeoIP, the IP's location is Jeddah, SA. I couldn't believe my eyes in the first place. The service provider stated that they couldn't do anything in this matter and they also said I needed to get it done. Thank you again for the responses.
Maxmind has a form to request changes to their database. Just write them using that contact form and I‘m pretty certain they will fix that ASAP. See: https://support.maxmind.com/geoip-data-correction-request/
@hohl thank you so much. I've contacted them via the request form.