[Tilesathome] ANNOUNCEMENT: T@H server will go away end of February
Hi all, I was just informed that the central ETH IT took an issue with the constant large bandwidth that the t@h server uses. In addition the server is four years old and getting old and senile... This means that end of February, the T@h server will be shut down and go away. Unless a replacement server (admin) is being found, that will also likely imply that the T@H service will go away (together with the tiles web server) at that point. I have previously argued, why I believe that a t@h service is not that crucial anymore, although I still believe it is good that it was there. I am not sure if and what should replace t@h, but generally speaking there are so many ways now to customize and get rendered tiles, that t@h is a bit of a dinosaur. A fun one though :-) I would like to thank the ETH Zurich, and specifically the Institute for Cartography of Prof. Lorenz Hurni (http://.karto.ethz.ch) that had been sponsoring the server and the bandwidth over the course of four years. They have been very generous, and never complained about the bandwidth/diskspace we were hogging all the time. Finally a special thanks to Claudia Matthys, their IT sysadmin who helped to purchase, setup and administer the thing. Also thanks to the legions of renderers, client developers, and style tweakers, such as Bob Kare, Petschge, Dirk Lüder-Kreie, the ROMA and TRAPI developers, and the people involved in running the read-only mirror architecture. That was and is amazing work that diverse people have been putting together there. I am not that much into mapping any more, but I will hang around and am open to other fun projects. Sebastian pgp2PsvGVvYN1.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Tilesathome mailing list Tilesathome@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
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Hi That's sad but I understad that decision. Well, as I have a server in the cellar which is running all the time (as I have some shells on it), I will search after another piece of work for my server (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Projekte_verteilten_Rechnens), but certainly no SETI... Have a good time, Sebastian, and thank you very much for your hard work! Kind regards Daniel Am Mi, 1.02.2012, 13:00 schrieb tilesathome-requ...@openstreetmap.org: Send Tilesathome mailing list submissions to tilesathome@openstreetmap.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to tilesathome-requ...@openstreetmap.org You can reach the person managing the list at tilesathome-ow...@openstreetmap.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Tilesathome digest... Today's Topics: 1. ANNOUNCEMENT: T@H server will go away end of February (Sebastian Spaeth) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:15:44 +0100 From: Sebastian Spaeth sebast...@sspaeth.de To: TilesAtHome tilesathome@openstreetmap.org, OSM-Dev Openstreetmap d...@openstreetmap.org, Dirk-L?der Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net, Patrick Kilian o...@petschge.de, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu Subject: [Tilesathome] ANNOUNCEMENT: T@H server will go away end of February Message-ID: 87ehueiz33@sspaeth.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi all, I was just informed that the central ETH IT took an issue with the constant large bandwidth that the t@h server uses. In addition the server is four years old and getting old and senile... This means that end of February, the T@h server will be shut down and go away. Unless a replacement server (admin) is being found, that will also likely imply that the T@H service will go away (together with the tiles web server) at that point. I have previously argued, why I believe that a t@h service is not that crucial anymore, although I still believe it is good that it was there. I am not sure if and what should replace t@h, but generally speaking there are so many ways now to customize and get rendered tiles, that t@h is a bit of a dinosaur. A fun one though :-) I would like to thank the ETH Zurich, and specifically the Institute for Cartography of Prof. Lorenz Hurni (http://.karto.ethz.ch) that had been sponsoring the server and the bandwidth over the course of four years. They have been very generous, and never complained about the bandwidth/diskspace we were hogging all the time. Finally a special thanks to Claudia Matthys, their IT sysadmin who helped to purchase, setup and administer the thing. Also thanks to the legions of renderers, client developers, and style tweakers, such as Bob Kare, Petschge, Dirk L?der-Kreie, the ROMA and TRAPI developers, and the people involved in running the read-only mirror architecture. That was and is amazing work that diverse people have been putting together there. I am not that much into mapping any more, but I will hang around and am open to other fun projects. Sebastian -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tilesathome/attachments/20120201/619f3b2e/attachment-0001.pgp -- ___ Tilesathome mailing list Tilesathome@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome End of Tilesathome Digest, Vol 57, Issue 1 ** -- PGP-Key-ID: 0x7C7A722B ___ Tilesathome mailing list Tilesathome@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
Re: [Tilesathome] ANNOUNCEMENT: T@H server will go away end of February
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Sebastian Spaeth sebast...@sspaeth.de wrote: Hi all, I was just informed that the central ETH IT took an issue with the constant large bandwidth that the t@h server uses. In addition the server is four years old and getting old and senile... This means that end of February, the T@h server will be shut down and go away. Unless a replacement server (admin) is being found, that will also likely imply that the T@H service will go away (together with the tiles web server) at that point. I have previously argued, why I believe that a t@h service is not that crucial anymore, although I still believe it is good that it was there. I am not sure if and what should replace t@h, but generally speaking there are so many ways now to customize and get rendered tiles, that t@h is a bit of a dinosaur. A fun one though :-) I would like to thank the ETH Zurich, and specifically the Institute for Cartography of Prof. Lorenz Hurni (http://.karto.ethz.ch) that had been sponsoring the server and the bandwidth over the course of four years. They have been very generous, and never complained about the bandwidth/diskspace we were hogging all the time. Finally a special thanks to Claudia Matthys, their IT sysadmin who helped to purchase, setup and administer the thing. Also thanks to the legions of renderers, client developers, and style tweakers, such as Bob Kare, Petschge, Dirk Lüder-Kreie, the ROMA and TRAPI developers, and the people involved in running the read-only mirror architecture. That was and is amazing work that diverse people have been putting together there. I am not that much into mapping any more, but I will hang around and am open to other fun projects. Sebastian Boy, that's a shame. :( Always sad to see the end of a project, even if it has served it's purpose. t@h was the only way to get instant renders after doing mapping work back in the day and really is/was an extremely interesting collection of methods and technologies to make that happen. I've enjoyed all the time I've spent hacking away at it, whether running clients or keeping TRAPI running along. I will truly be sad to see it go. (although it'll be nice to get my 20Mbit of outbound TRAPI traffic back ;)) I'd like to echo Sebastian's statements above and say thanks to everyone who made it happen. There were many hands at work in developing and running the t@h infrastructure before it because as stable as it's been lately and they all desire a heartfelt thank you. -Jeremy ___ Tilesathome mailing list Tilesathome@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
