[OSGeo Oceania] request from OpenStreetMap.org

[adam steer]

Hi Ross, All

I’ve put OSM and AARnet in touch with each other, I hope they talk and
report back :D

Cheers

Adam

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 11:32, Ross Johnson <rossgo at hotmail.com> wrote:

> FYI:
>
> Can you help make OpenStreetMap.org faster in Brazil, or Australia/New
> Zealand?
> *CDN* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network>* of **tile
> delivery caching servers*
> <http://dns.openstreetmap.org/tile.openstreetmap.org.html>*.*
>
> A big use of the OpenStreetMap data is the web map on OpenStreetMap.org.
> Along with our hard working team of volunteer sysadmins who keep it going,
> we are helped by many donated tile cache servers around the world, which
> speed up the map in various regions.
> We are always open to more servers, but the Operations Working Group is
> currently looking for servers in Brazil, and Australia/New Zealand. If you
> or your organisation would like to donate a cache server and hosting, we’re
> ideally looking for a physical server or powerful VM with 8GB+ RAM and at
> least 146GB of storage. Read more details.
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/Tile_CDN>
>
> Please email operations at osmfoundation.org if you are interested.
>
> Our peak Brazil traffic is currently around 65 Mbps. Our peak Australian
> and New Zealand traffic is currently around 20 Mbps. See the full country
> breakdown in bits per second.
> <https://git.openstreetmap.org/dns.git/blob/HEAD:/bandwidth/tile.openstreetmap.yml>
>
> Some more information:
>
>    - Brazil has the 10th highest traffic and is the largest country
>    without a cache in it or nearby.
>    - Worldwide peak traffic is 2300 Mbps.
>    - Antarctica and Australia are the two continents we do not have
>    caches on.
>
> We fully manage the software and operating system. All config is managed
> via our chef recipes <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.
>
> Will you help us and join the people and organisations that support
> OpenStreetMap? Thank you <https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/thanks/>!
>
> *The OpenStreetMap Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation, formed in
> the UK to support the OpenStreetMap Project. It is dedicated to encouraging
> the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data for anyone
> to use and share. The OpenStreetMap Foundation owns and maintains the
> infrastructure of the OpenStreetMap project. Volunteers, like the
> indefatigable team of server administrators, keep all of this hardware
> working. *
>
> *OpenStreetMap tiles are free for everyone to use, but should be used
> with moderation <https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/>. If
> you are a high traffic site you should look at switch2osm.org
> <https://switch2osm.org/> to find out how to use the data and keep the
> tiles available for everyone. *
>
> *If you can’t donate server hosting, you can always make a financial
> donation to the OSMF <https://donate.openstreetmap.org/>.*
>
>
>
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