[FOSS4G-Oceania] [Talk-nz] [talk-au] Able to host a tile.osm.org CDN node?

[adam steer]

Hi Grant

Hopefully someone from AARnet (https://www.aarnet.edu.au) gets in touch
with you soon - they’re a national collaborative research infrastructure
initiative, and host local (Au/Oceania) caches of many things.

Cheers

Adam



On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 19:47, Grant Slater <openstreetmap at firefishy.com>
wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> We have universities, internet exchanges, hosting companies and some
> individuals which host servers for us.
> The full list is here: https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/thanks/
>
> We fully manage the software and operating system. All config is
> managed via our chef https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef . We also
> run a local firewall on each server. If physical hardware, we monitor
> using it SMART, hp-health, etc and report any hardware issues back to
> the hosting organisation.
>
> AWS bandwidth is extremely expensive and is unlikely to be the most
> effective way of improving OpenStreetMap. Most of the bandwidth used
> by a regional tile cache is "local". We've had hosting and Internet
> Exchanges who have appreciated hosting these caches, because they've
> then been able to negotiate better peering agreements with others.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Grant
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 22:32, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Grant, it would be great to have something up and running here. What
> kind of org usually provides this elsewhere? Unis, companies, individuals?
> Is there a technical maintenance component required, or is this just
> hardware? AWS has a Sydney location, would this be a viable option?
> >
> > Thanks, John
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 06:55, Grant Slater <openstreetmap at firefishy.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi OpenStreetMap Talk-AU,
> >>
> >> Quick Introduction: I am part of the volunteer Operations team who run
> >> the OpenStreetMap.org infrastructure.
> >>
> >> Our tile.openstreetmap.org CDN would greatly benefit from having a
> >> cache server in Australia and/or New Zealand. It would make the
> >> default rendered map on OpenStreetMap.org much faster for Australians.
> >>
> >> The live CDN Country -> Edge Cache Mapping:
> >> https://dns.openstreetmap.org/tile.openstreetmap.org.html
> >>
> >> Know anyone who could help?
> >> We're ideally looking for a physical server or powerful VM with 8GB+
> >> RAM and at least 146GB of storage.
> >> More details here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/Tile_CDN
> >>
> >> Our current peak AU traffic is currently around 18,000,000 Bits per
> second.
> >>
> >> Full breakdown here in bps:
> >>
> https://git.openstreetmap.org/dns.git/blob/HEAD:/bandwidth/tile.openstreetmap.yml
> >>
> >> Feel free to contact me off-list if you prefer.
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> Grant
> >>
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> >
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