Re: Sponsored FOSS hosting?

Hi,

On 15 July 2014 16:48, Charles Leaver <[email protected]> wrote:
> So are you asking for somebody to sponsor you hosting or are you wanting
> to plug OpenStreetMap? If you¹re wanting to be sponsored hosting then you
> should probably provide a few more detailsŠ
>

Sponsored hosting. Testing the waters, sorry my brevity was intentional.

> - how busy is the site?

We are not looking for complete hosting for the OpenStreetMap project.
We are looking to offload some South African only services [1] closer
to the South African community.
OpenStreetMap's worldwide outgoing bandwidth requirements are in
excess of 300Mbit/s averaged over 7 days. [2]

> - what¹s it written in?

We use a linux based stack running on Ubuntu LTS for all services, all
services are installed/managed by our configuration management system
(Chef).
Ideally we're looking for: A dedicated server, else 2U rack space,
else good sized VM.

> - what are the bandwidth requirements?

Hosting only server listed in [1] requires 18Kbit/s outgoing average
(but realistically traffic would likely treble once in ZA) [3]

I'm well aware that bandwidth is extremely expensive in South Africa.

In an ideal world we'd also offload ZA tile.openstreetmap.org traffic
[4] which is ~280Kbit/s average.

We use a custom PowerDNS GeoDNS backend to roughly segment the traffic
[5]. Anycast is unfortunately not an option available to us.

Depending on the hosting, we would proxy-cache (90%+ bandwidth cache
hit) or set up a full hosted instance.

> - do you just want bandwidth (I.e. you¹re hoping to drop down your own box
> but be given free traffic and a place to drop it)?
>

Yes, dropping a box is an option. We'd have to source a box and might
even entail shipping out an oldish HP DL360 from the UK.
Our life would be easier if there was hardware available.

> If I was considering sponsoring you hosting I¹d definitely need to know
> the answers to at least those questions first and I¹m sure quite a few
> others as well.
>

Shoot, happy to answer any other questions.

1: eg: http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/ + a new promotional
http://www.openstreetmap.org.za/ site.
2: http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/tile.openstreetmap/network_out.html
3: Note 1 above uses:
http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/draco.openstreetmap/if_eth1.html
4: http://git.openstreetmap.org/dns.git/blob/HEAD:/bandwidth/tile.openstreetmap.yml
5: http://dns.openstreetmap.org/

Kind regards,
Grant Slater

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