Question about IP addresses and "who" calls them.

[mgomez03]

Still new to server-side stuff so bear with my noobness. I'm playing around with the Yahoo Geocoding API. Yahoo limits the API to 5000 calls per IP address in 24-hour blocks.

So if understand this corrrectly, from my own computer, I can make 5000 requests. No big deal.

However, say I decide to make a public website incorporating said API. It's likely that calls will then be made via a .php script instead. Dumb question, but does this mean that my hosting server is now the [lone IP address] calling and if 5000 different users call on the script just once, no more calls for the rest of the day?

Or will the API know that 5000 different IPs are making the calls?

[Flash Gordon]

I kind of follow you...I know no idea about the application. So the quesiton would be:

If someone calls you, do both IP's get logged as a call?

If not, if people are calling the server, the server should have unlimited calls. This seems more like a question for tech support for whatever you are dealing with though.

Good luck.

[mgomez03]

Thanks for the reply. You're right, I probably should write Yahoo about it. I'm hoping a server gets "unlimited" calls because otherwise all it would take is one bad user spamming it 5000+ to ruin it for everyone instead of the bad user's IP using up the limit alone.

Thanks again.