Amazon perhaps. Google might find it cuts a little too close to the bone. Chris, have you approached the AWS folks about hosting OAM? It's a little more involved than just data storage, they'd also need to provide a couple EC2 instances to receive and process the new data, but it would remove the hosting and scalability issues nicely.
P. On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Joseph Gentle <jose...@gmail.com> wrote: > If need be, I suspect both amazon and google would be happy to help > with hosting. > > http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ > > -J > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Landon Blake <lbl...@ksninc.com> wrote: >> Frank wrote: "Clarifying such a matter is not trivial in an organization >> with many different ideas like OSGeo." >> >> Roger that. So I guess it boils down to the internal support for this >> type of service. >> >> Frank wrote: "I'm not sure if telascience accepts public donations or >> not, nor whether it is 501(c)3 which might matter for tax purposes." >> >> Roger that. I wonder if it would be possible to make a donation to >> telascience trough OSGeo, which would be tax deductible... >> >> Landon >> Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 >> Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org >> [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam >> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 2:53 PM >> To: OSGeo Discussions >> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Relationship between Telascience and the >> OSGeo >> >> Landon Blake wrote: >>> Frank wrote: "In addition to the servers provided by Telascience we >> also >>> have two rented >>> servers at Peer1 (svn, trac, drupal, and mailman are on one of these >>> servers). >>> We are paying nearly $15K/yr for these two servers." >>> >>> Wow! Does our traffic require two dedicated servers like this? >> >> Landon, >> >> The arrangement at Peer1 was made primarily with the goal of having >> a reliable decent server able to support svn/trac and related project >> services. The second server is primarily serving as a backup though >> the wiki is hosted there. >> >> We are contemplating dropping use of the second Peer1 server to save >> funds. >> >>> Frank wrote: " So far geospatial data hosting has been accomplished >> via >>> the servers at >>> Telascience. OSGeo has not to-date provided any resources of it's own >>> (ie. budgeted for) in support of hosting geodata. >>> >>> Large scale geodata hosting is pretty demanding from a computational, >>> disk space and bandwidth point of view and it would be likely be >>> cost prohibitive for us to pursue it in a big way on commercially >>> priced servers like the ones at Peer1." >>> >>> Is it the space requirements that make geodata hosting demanding, the >>> bandwith requirements for download, or both? >> >> Both. Bandwidth overages at Peer1 can mount up to be expensive very >> quickly, so we already host our most bandwidth intensive applications >> (download.osgeo.org and existing geodata services) at telascience. >> >> I'm presuming the hosted data would be made available as web services >> (WMS, WCS, etc) not just a download site. >> >>> Frank wrote: " There is some question in my mind just how central the >>> *hosting* of >>> free geodata is to our mission." >>> >>> It would be great to get this clarified. >> >> Clarifying such a matter is not trivial in an organization with >> many different ideas like OSGeo. >> >>> I had originally asked this question because I might be able to make a >>> small donation to support free geodata hosting. I was trying to figure >>> out which organization would be the best suited for the donation. >> Sounds >>> like it should go to telascience. We'll see how my taxes works out >> this >>> year. :] >> >> I'm not sure if telascience accepts public donations or not, nor whether >> it is 501(c)3 which might matter for tax purposes. >> >> Best regards, >> -- >> ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------- >> ------ >> I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, >> warmer...@pobox.com >> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam >> and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> >> Warning: >> Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects >> including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the >> intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, >> distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you >> have received this information in error, please notify the sender >> immediately. >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
