Oops, sorry for not replying to the list! I always manage to forget that that isn't the default in gmail.<br><br>I think there may very well be a market for a cooperative venture in terms of WMS data-serving. If enough people have a need to display data through WMS then it become economical pretty quickly, though you'd have to calculate out the bandwidth usage in advance to avoid overage charges.<br>
<br>Right now I have my own server though I was looking at Media Temple to see if I could use it to gain a little more speed as my current server is shared.<br><br>The only problem I see is that if you use a less expensive server it probably won't support either SSH access or serving Python scripts--which is what you'd want for TileCache. The way around that might be to pre-render everything to a directory structure and then upload that to a host, and then write an adapter for OpenLayers to create URLs based on the directory structure instead of calls to a WMS compliant script. I think OpenStreetMap has code to do that, from what I remember offhand.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 2, 2008 7:20 PM, James McManus <<a href="mailto:jmpmcmanus@yahoo.com">jmpmcmanus@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Beau,<br><br>Thanks for the information I will check it out. Write now $20/mo is more<br>than I was thinking of paying. But I may use it in the future, if I am<br>successful. I'm also looking at CoralCDN, although I've read that it may<br>
have high latency. I have my own server, but want to find ways of<br>increasing its performance and make it more reliable, in case of<br>increase use or unexpected outages. I'm also not sure if I want to get<br>into the server business. It's nice having one to experiment with, but<br>
I would prefere not having to maintain one for costumers.<br><br>Part of my business plan is to market maps to costumers who have a need<br>for specialized maps, but are using a Web host instead of having their<br>own server. Marketing maps to them would be more difficult if I have to<br>
set up a lot of specialized software on there website. Therefore, my<br>plan is to just set up an Openlayers web page on their site, and to<br>serve the tiles from another location.<br><br>I'm thinking there are other people with similar business concepts, so<br>
there may be a need for a service that specializes in serving WMS files,<br>and other services such as WFS, for small businesses. One idea would be<br>to start a WMS Coop, where small businesses could store and serve there<br>
tiles. It could also be a clearinghouse for WMS data. Is such a concept<br>be tossed around in the WMS community, or am I out in left field?<br><br>Jim<br><div class="Ih2E3d">Beau Gunderson wrote:<br>> Media Temple provides cheapish ($20/mo) hosting that you can access<br>
> via SSH; it's Linux-based. Optimized for MySQL and Ruby, though I<br>> think Python will work as well (so you could run something like<br>> TileCache... Not sure about MapServer).<br>><br>> Does that meet your definition of inexpensive?<br>
><br>><br>> Beau<br>><br>> On Feb 1, 2008 1:07 PM, James McManus <<a href="mailto:jmpmcmanus@yahoo.com">jmpmcmanus@yahoo.com</a><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jmpmcmanus@yahoo.com">jmpmcmanus@yahoo.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>> Hi - I'm looking for a free, or inexpensive, web host that would allow<br>> me to store tiled maps, and access them using WMS from other<br>> sites. I've<br>> found plenty of free web host, but they all seem to discourage using<br>
> their sites to store image files, explicitly for linking to other<br>> sites.<br>> Am I reading to much into their requirement? Are there sites set up to<br>> server the WMS-C community?<br>><br>
> Thanks<br>> Jim<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Tilecache mailing list<br></div>> <a href="mailto:Tilecache@openlayers.org">Tilecache@openlayers.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Tilecache@openlayers.org">Tilecache@openlayers.org</a>><br>
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