You should check out Paul Ramsey’s presentation on cloud providers offering PostgreSQL database service.
I think it would answer your question about sustainability. Let me try and find a link: - http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2019/05/foss4g-keynote-2019.html - http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2019/07/aws-aurora.html Really open source is a long game, projects are only sustainable when folks take part. Participation is even more important than money. Or rather money is only important if it can be used to buy participation. — Jody On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 12:07 AM Ron Lindhoudt <rlindho...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Jody, > > Thanks for your response. > You and other contributors have every reason to be proud of your open > source software. > > I am curious why the amazon set up of your previous employer was not > sustainable if it was popular. > > Microsoft Azure has a PostgreSQL service thats has a lot of benefits for > us. We don´t have to install it on a VM anymore, backup, restore, > stability, performance, security issues etc. etc. are all out of our hands. > The price is oke in my view. > If they would have a similar solution for Geoserver that would be great. > > > Ron > > > > > > > On Wednesday, 28 September 2022 at 10:38:34 CEST, Jody Garnett < > jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Ron: > > Amazon asked that during our foss4g presentation and it kind of pissed me > off. As a project we make software and give it away for free (asking that > our community help test release candidates twice a year and take part in > the user list to help make the project successful). Amazon makes a lot of > money off their platform and are perfectly capable of creating and > packaging the application for their customers (and does not need hand-outs > of our time). > > I think I said something more polite: "as a community we make the software > and it is up to our service providers to consider additional distribution > opportunities". I know my previous employer set up an amazon thing and > while it was popular - it was not sustainable. For the amount of work it > did not bring in new community members or opportunities for the service > provider doing the work. > > To be clear we distribute geoserver as free software so that everyone can > enjoy it, including cloud providers. It is a challenge for all the cloud > providers to figure out how to engage free software and open source > software in a sustainable manner. > -- > Jody Garnett > > > On Mon, 26 Sept 2022 at 04:50, Ron Lindhoudt <rlindho...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > It would be nice if Geoserver could be seen as a "service" provided by big > known cloud providers like Microsoft and Amazon that support seamless > scalability. > Like they do with open source database PostgreSQL. > > On Monday, 26 September 2022 at 09:49:26 CEST, Jody Garnett < > jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Peshawa: > > GeoServer is just an application; so you can choose any cloud hosting > option and install and run the application yourself. Of course if you wish > an organization to do this for you there are some options (including my > employer) on the GeoServer commercial support page: > https://geoserver.org/support/ > > We have tagged the service providers on that page with their area of > demonstrated experience. You can find a few more listed on the osgeo > website here https://www.osgeo.org/service-providers/?p=geoserver > > > -- > Jody Garnett > > > On Sat, 24 Sept 2022 at 15:20, Peshawa Salih <peshawabakht...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear Sir/Madam, > > I am sending this email regarding my webmap project. I have used > Geoserver, GeoJSON, and OpenLayers to create my webmap. In the final > stages, I am seeking a web or cloud hosting that accepts Geoserver. > > I am kindly asking for your support regarding my case and wondering if > Geoserver has cloud hosting. Does QGIS Cloud server accept Geoserver? and > what are your recommendations? > > Thank you for your time and consideration. > > Faithfully yours, > -- > Peshawa B. Salih > Geomatics Engineer & Cartographer > A Sulaymaniyah, 172 Chnarok > M +964-770-608-9393 || +36-70-270-8975 > E peshawabakht...@gmail.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > > Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to > this list: > - Earning your support instead of buying it, but Ian Turton: > http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/ > - The GeoServer user list posting guidelines: > http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html > > If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: > https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer > > > Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users > > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > > Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to > this list: > - Earning your support instead of buying it, but Ian Turton: > http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/ > - The GeoServer user list posting guidelines: > http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html > > If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: > https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer > > > Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users > > -- -- Jody Garnett
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