Hello, additional to Pauls text some background information:
We had server troubles regarding the database performance for about 2 years now. Mainly these issues have been caused by the increasing activity of you all which resulted in growing database and activity. SqLite is a very simple database and got to its limits. The JOSM-Trac was too successful (one of the reasons why there are so many spam attempts :-)
To fix the database issues I wanted to change to postgresql instead, which is more suitable for the current requirements. As the change of the database is a big issue and the current server had no IPV6 connectivity I simply asked Hetzner for sponsoring a new server not really expecting a positive answer. But they said yes immediatelly, so database upgrade also got server move. I promised them some unobtrusive advertising for their sponsoring, but there is no contract enforcing this.
BTW: Why Hetzner - I use them private and in company a lot and they are pretty good.
So I got a complete new server instead of only a new database. The hosting with FOSSGIS was fine, nothing to blame about this (the IPV6 issue is due to the fact GFZ has no IPV6 yet). Thought an own server is always a bit better. So instead of only doing the database update we also have a new server now (still database migration was much more work than the server move - we have a pretty good guide for server migration right now, we did it 2 times in the past :-).
Regarding new server, database: There needs to be a little more finetuning, so the setup does not exceed the available ressources - The defaults of web server and database are very ressource hungry for no good reason. Please report any issues - I expect some more troubles in the next days, but hopefully we have some time until we exceed limits next time.
So lots of thanks again to FOSSGIS who provided server space for us for such a long time. As there is enough demand for computer power in the OSM community I believe the old server soon will get used for other fancy purposes.
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