[Feature Request] Per City load balancing

[eStolkYw 13]

I propose to add an additional option to generate a config file per City (https://airvpn.org/generator/) that will connect to the most optimal server for that city based on server load. This would work similar to how when you connect via Country or Continent.

What I mean is when generating config files (https://airvpn.org/generator/) you can only select the specific servers for each city, rather than selecting just the city itself. 

The problem with connecting via Country or Continent is it will often connect you to a less than optimal server relative to your location. For example, Chicago based connections might be connected to Florida etc. which ultimately leads to connections with bad latency and lower speeds.

[Air4141841 24]

ill happily upvote this post/ suggestion

[OpenSourcerer 1435]

It is an interesting suggestion, but I also see that it needs changes in many parts of AirVPN. The website, API, the "load balancer", and all software, even unofficial ones. Expect this to linger for a bit.

[ss11 15]

Interesting, but an easier approach for this in terms of engineering wouldn't this be easily achieved by just adding a DNS entry host of:

$city{1,2,3}.vpn.airdns.org

which will just include the servers in the $city, with their respective entry addresses 1,2,3 and you can use in config generator the $city hostname and leave all as it is now.

This would be much easy to do, as we just need to use the dyn DNS creator of airdns which already works in providing load balancing for per continent or per country basis and just add a pool of servers by city and reproduce the line of code to sort the least loaded server per that city.

I think it should be proposed in this way, as it does not affect or change the current logic / behavior we have (which works great so far).

[benfitita 39]

The nicest would be a per-device configurable subdomain. For example, 50e8400e29b41d4a716446655440000.devices.vpn.airdns.org. There would be a section in client area, where I could pick up planets, continents, countries, cities (future?) and, in the end, individual servers. Also speed filter would be nice. This DNS entry would resolve to a random server from my selection. + ipv6 and all entry, similar to https://airvpn.org/faq/servers_ip/.

I'm not sure about privacy implications though. Maybe using DoH etc would somewhat alleviate the problem, but that isn't always an option.

Edited ... by benfitita
mention DoH workaround