On 13 June 2011 10:06, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got one National Grid square (SO) here and it's 202Mb zipped, 709Mb > unzipped. There are 56 such squares. 56x709Mb is 39.7Gb _but_ I'd estimate > that SO is one of the busiest squares, so we're maybe talking 20Gb or so for > the whole of Britain. As for bandwidth - hooee, who knows how many times > eager OSMers might want to download bits of it...
Rather than caning my current server, I'm looking into using S3 (or another provider) so I can get an idea of just how download happy users will be. Then I can figure out what the cheapest solution will be. If anyone knows about using cloud-hosting as a mirror, particularly if you think it is a terrible idea, please speak up now. Craig _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
