Jochen123 wrote > The German community has been running such as server (in fact several of > them) for years now and the experiences have not been great.
Mileage may very, but from my experience, we, at french community, have been able to run 3 servers strong enough to run worlwide and up to date osm2pgsql/osmosis and overpass data bases (and now even a osm2pgsql load balanced and backup database). Those serve other tools created by "hobbyist" located in different less powerfull servers we have access to. Jochen123 wrote > Second, it takes an enormous effort to keep those servers running. That is really true. It is about as hard (if not more) to find motivated people to help those server administration, monitoring and updates than collecting the initial money from sponsors, fondations, individuals to buy and host servers. And the more you host projects, the more work there is to keep all things from stepping on other projects which is way we don't open postgresql to any other servers we don't have control to, and we stop tools for wich there is no more people to look after. And of course, constantly try to recruit benevol people to help. (Our team is fragile, should the 3 key people quit, all would soon be down) Handling those things at a world level might really be challenging, we need trust between people, some time we need real life meeting, some central decision to decide "yes to this tool but no to this one" and people to handle serveral tasks in or around it (where is the python expert ? who has access to this domain name ? who can change that failed disk ? who can buy us 3 SSD drives ? who can move that 30kg server from Paris to Lyon ? etc.) If you have a clear picture of what tool you want to run and what it needs, and you don't have a local community with servers to share, maybe you can come to us and we'll see if that can be possible ? http://listes.openstreetmap.fr/wws/info/tech -- sly -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Hobbyist-OSM-Data-Server-tp5788851p5788999.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
