-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sebastian Spaeth a écrit : > Rodolphe Quiedeville wrote: >> So why not dispatch the serving step to some off server like mine by dns >> round robin or using a.tah.openstreetmap.org, b.tah, .... >> It's easy to set up, just define letter.tah. a CNAME and easy to come >> back if you want. > > We had/have that on informationfreeway for quite a while and people have > always been complaining, as depending on the proxy settings, you would > sometimes get old tiles which is not what you want to see after you > edited and rendered.
Do you know people that does not complain ? :-) Every hour I remove tiles with a create time on my filesystem > 24h > Second, there were always some of the proxies down, effectively leading > to 404s. Indeed but If the main server is down it's just worst. > Third, some well meant offers had to be retracted quite soon, as they > were a bit overwhelmed by the resulting traffic, leading to constant > administration efforts in adding/removing proxies. I had a look at the munin graphs of the www server it's never over 20Mbits, not so heavy. > It was not as bad as it sounds, but nearly so. I don't want to say it's the right solution, if I proposed that it' because I saw the tiles ar served by server's name a.tah..., b.tah... even if it's a catch-all dns under tah.openstreetmap.org I supposed it was the first step of distributed web server architecture. Regards - -- Rodolphe Quiédeville - Artisan Logiciel Libre http://rodolphe.quiedeville.org/ Travaillons Libre - http://fr.lolix.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIYUhgmyyHaHLx8g0RAgYyAKCShz1htoU4PR1crz0lmiVqnLPcRQCeP6YP HK+pEdCyr9X8DEl+yITLtUw= =fiI/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tilesathome
