I may be showing my ignorance, but isn't S3 a virtual server that you can run code on etc?<div><br></div><div>I thought that all this needs is a web (or does it have to be ftp) server?</div><div><br></div><div>Cloudnext (<a href="http://cloudnext.co.uk">http://cloudnext.co.uk</a>) do a web hosting package with 'unlimited' storage space and bandwidth for £70 pa (+vat I suspect), which does not sound bad. They seem to be ok - they host my <a href="http://maps3.org.uk">http://maps3.org.uk</a> server, which seems reliable enough (but it does not get hammered).</div>
<div><br></div><div>The biggest issue I see is getting the data onto the server. The nice people at OS sent me all of VMD on DVDs, so I have them on my home server, but ftp'ing them up to another server using my domestic broadband would take forever......would need someone with a nice fast upload connection.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Graham.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 June 2011 11:00, Craig Loftus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:craigloftus%2Bosm@googlemail.com">craigloftus+osm@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On 13 June 2011 10:06, Richard Fairhurst <<a href="mailto:richard@systemed.net">richard@systemed.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> I've got one National Grid square (SO) here and it's 202Mb zipped, 709Mb<br>
> unzipped. There are 56 such squares. 56x709Mb is 39.7Gb _but_ I'd estimate<br>
> that SO is one of the busiest squares, so we're maybe talking 20Gb or so for<br>
> the whole of Britain. As for bandwidth - hooee, who knows how many times<br>
> eager OSMers might want to download bits of it...<br>
<br>
</div>Rather than caning my current server, I'm looking into using S3 (or<br>
another provider) so I can get an idea of just how download happy<br>
users will be. Then I can figure out what the cheapest solution will<br>
be.<br>
<br>
If anyone knows about using cloud-hosting as a mirror, particularly if<br>
you think it is a terrible idea, please speak up now.<br>
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Craig<br>
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