Roel Baardman schrieb: > Dear t...@h mailinglist, > > I am a student at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. > Being a member of Studenten Net Twente, I operate some mirrors for open > source software (we have nl.debian.org and I do gentoo among others). > Currently I am only a mirror for the OSM world file, but I would like to > see how I can help OSM with the resources available to me. > > I am wondering how "heavy" serving tiles is. Is it just a cache of > pre-calculated tiles, or does it involve a lot of computation for the > server in question? The server I have available at the moment is highly > optimized for pushing as much data out as possible (it peaks at 1.5 > GBit, with the PCI bus being the bottle-neck), so computation might be a > problem. Static content would be great however. > > The Wiki doesn't state much about tile serving other than "we need help" :) > Do you only want to serve t...@h-tiles? If not you should ask Firefishy (Grant Slater, OpenStreetMap Server Admin) for details, he is currently looking for another tile server to serve mapnik tiles. The current tile server (one machine only) has a traffic of 4.8TB/month More infos can be found in the Wiki, maybe it is also better to ask the dev-list.
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