On 22/07/28164 20:59, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > El Martes, 8 de Septiembre de 2009, Grant Slater escribió: >> We also get slightly more OSM operated hardware outside UCL soon. Any >> friendly large hosts out there that can offer us some well bandwidth >> fed hardware/rack space? Maybe a university in North America? > > The spanish local chapter *may* be able to get some rack space and connection > to a backbone, either free or dirty cheap. > > Supposing that we get the rack space, what kind of machine and services would > you like us to host here? Just a mapnik renderer to balance load and improve > tile serving uptime?
My guess would be that providing a caching proxy for mapnik tiles and potentially the wiki would be the easiest for some external hosting. It would help quite a bit with bandwidth (and hopefully also with uptime) as the mediawiki proxy test showed and should be comparatively moderate on server hardware and admin time. Setting up a global mapnik render server would need alot more server power and might not be worth it unless you want to offer localised or alternative rendering styles. Kai > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
