[SAC] Hosting for http://openstreetmap.org.ar/

[correo at fernando.com.ar]

Hello, I'm Fernando, from the OSM-Ar community. 

First of all,
thank you for taking this into consideration. 

For your information, we
were running on a humble VPS with the following specs: 

1Gb RAM 
60GB
HDD
1 core
500GB of BW 

This setup wasnt really enough, low RAM made
on-the-fly rendering quite slow, not handling concurrency nicely, if at
all. As the HDD is 60GB caching turned virtually useless, the elevated
inodes usage constantly filled the disk. 

Anyway, at least doubling
this specs (not the BW), while implementing new techniques and stack
might be enough for the mid term. 

We only serve tiles from Argentina,
so our DB has only the Geofabrik extract from this country. 

Its not
exactly a mirror, as we introduce minor changes in the style, symbols,
and localization. [1] 

On the other hand, we constantly "represent"
OSM, and FOSS4G when government authorities or representatives show
interest on these, wich is quite usual lately. We are a healthy
community working on this matter constantly. We love FLOSS and Open
Data. 

We aim to get incorporated in the Local Chapters proposal, but
we still are a community, not a legal entity. [2] [3] 

About the
software: 

OS: Debian 7 

mapnik
osm2pgsql
postgresql -
postgis
tilestache
nodejs, node-mapnik, tile-live, cartocss
nginx 

Also
note that I can fully manage the server, so a fresh Debian is all we
need. 

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_Argentina

[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters 
[3]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Agreement


For the sake of brevity Ive ommited lots of details on what we do and
can do, but I'll be glad to clear further doubts. 

Thanks, 

Fernando
Sanz 

El 2014-03-20 13:08, Alex Mandel escribió: 

> On 03/20/2014
05:11 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-03-19, 2:24 PM, Alex Mandel
wrote: 
>> 
>>> I'm all for finding a way to help but I'm not sure
putting stuff on an OSGeo machine is the right answer. If the data is
really "for" Argentina and other local countries a closer server
location would be helpful, something in South America. I'm wondering if
one of the OSGeo-ICA labs might be able to help.
http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ [1] I am open to discussing further
collaboration with the OSM community though. I expect there to be some
mutually beneficial arrangement. Thanks, Alex
>> I am aware of Geo4All,
as I am heavily involved in it. I will of course ask; however I was
hoping that OSGeo and our infrastructure could help out the OSM
community in this case. -jeff
> 
> Do we have specs for what the needs
are?
> Disk space, web traffic load?
> 
> Given how much trouble we have
keeping Vmap0 tiles from overloading or
> resources, I'm not sure we
have the capacity to serve high volumes of
> tiles on the current
hardware.
> 
> I'm also a little confused about what the local OSM
mirrors do in
> relation to the main OSM infrastructure which is well
funded?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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