[Openstreetmap-dev] OSM server under load? view-map problems

[Alex Willmer]

Steve et al,

I was hoping to followup an OSM pitch I made to a local LUG. But the
static renderer appears to be having problems. The overview map of
Birmingham to which I normally link, is rendering with only the Landsat
background:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit/view-map.html?lat=52.5&lon=-1.8&scale=0.0006

Has this extent hit some segements/memory/timeout/other limit? 

Also, how is the server holding upto the load/bandwidth demands of OSM?
Presumably someone is kindly hosting OSM pro bono, is hosting likely to
be a problem in the near future?

Regards and thanks

Alex