I may be showing my ignorance, but isn't S3 a virtual server that you can run code on etc?
I thought that all this needs is a web (or does it have to be ftp) server? Cloudnext (http://cloudnext.co.uk) do a web hosting package with 'unlimited' storage space and bandwidth for £70 pa (+vat I suspect), which does not sound bad. They seem to be ok - they host my http://maps3.org.uk server, which seems reliable enough (but it does not get hammered). The biggest issue I see is getting the data onto the server. The nice people at OS sent me all of VMD on DVDs, so I have them on my home server, but ftp'ing them up to another server using my domestic broadband would take forever......would need someone with a nice fast upload connection. Regards Graham. On 13 June 2011 11:00, Craig Loftus <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.
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