More XAPI servers running on good hardware is the only realistic solution.
Well, there could perhaps be another solution, like running your own XAPI server - the minutely diffs are usually less than 100Kb, so the required bandwidth to download from planet.openstreetmap.org would be less than 2 Kb/second in average.
But the question is - how large would be the planet database on disk (how large would it get once you import the planet dump)
I guess the database would be in order of tens of gigabytes, probably over 100 GB ...
And how much memory you need on the machine to run some reasonable queries (if 4 GiB works for main XAPI server, would it be usable on machine with only 1 GiB of memory?)
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