[Tilecache] wms-c hosting

[Beau Gunderson]

Oops, sorry for not replying to the list! I always manage to forget that
that isn't the default in gmail.

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.

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.

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.

On Feb 2, 2008 7:20 PM, James McManus <jmpmcmanus at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Beau,
>
> Thanks for the information I will check it out. Write now $20/mo is more
> than I was thinking of paying. But I may use it in the future, if I am
> successful. I'm also looking at CoralCDN, although I've read that it may
> have high latency.  I have my own server, but want to find ways of
> increasing its performance and make it more reliable, in case of
> increase use or unexpected outages. I'm also not sure if I want to get
> into the server business.  It's nice having one to experiment with, but
> I would prefere not having to maintain one for costumers.
>
> Part of my business plan is to market maps to costumers who have a need
> for specialized maps, but are using a Web host instead of having their
> own server.  Marketing maps to them would be more difficult if I have to
> set up a lot of specialized software on there website. Therefore, my
> plan is to just set up an Openlayers web page on their site, and to
> serve the tiles from another location.
>
> I'm thinking there are other people with similar business concepts, so
> there may be a need for a service that specializes in serving WMS files,
> and other services such as WFS, for small businesses. One idea would be
> to start a WMS Coop, where small businesses could store and serve there
> tiles. It could also be a clearinghouse for WMS data. Is such a concept
> be tossed around in the WMS community, or am I out in left field?
>
> Jim
> Beau Gunderson wrote:
> > Media Temple provides cheapish ($20/mo) hosting that you can access
> > via SSH; it's Linux-based. Optimized for MySQL and Ruby, though I
> > think Python will work as well (so you could run something like
> > TileCache... Not sure about MapServer).
> >
> > Does that meet your definition of inexpensive?
> >
> >
> > Beau
> >
> > On Feb 1, 2008 1:07 PM, James McManus <jmpmcmanus at yahoo.com
> > <mailto:jmpmcmanus at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi - I'm looking for a free, or inexpensive, web host that would
> allow
> >     me to store tiled maps, and access them using WMS from other
> >     sites. I've
> >     found plenty of free web host, but they all seem to discourage using
> >     their sites to store image files, explicitly for linking to other
> >     sites.
> >     Am I reading to much into their requirement? Are there sites set up
> to
> >     server the WMS-C community?
> >
> >     Thanks
> >     Jim
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