[OSM-dev] Uptime problems of xapi.openstreetmap.org?

[Maarten Deen]

Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> Stefan Keller wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> What are the core problems not being able to keep those Xapi services
>> up, especially xapi.openstreetmap.org?
>
> Note, that I'm no XAPI maintainer. IMO there are at least 3 computers
> running xapi services:
>
> - 1 owned by OSM located in UCL is reliable but on a weak machine
> - 1 donated by bearstech which had a hard disk failure
> - 1 hosted on hypercube.telascience.org which is quite a powerful box.
> unfortunately it uses NFS mounted disk space with a history of outages
> and performance problems over the last weeks (months?)

A week or so ago there was some uphieve about KPN who were using OSM data for
a mobile on-line application without proper attribution. There was some talk
on the talk-nl list about KPN giving something back.
How about asking them to donate a server with rackspace for this?

See <http://www.openstreetmap.nl/archives/84-Hi-OpenStreetMap!-How-are-you.html>
or
<http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openstreetmap.nl%2Farchives%2F84-Hi-OpenStreetMap!-How-are-you.html&lp=nl_en&btnTrUrl=Translate>
for translation.

Maarten