[OSM-dev] API/XAPI caching proxy server

[Philipp Borgers]

Hi,

we use api, xapi, nominatim with a little proxy script written in php.
We use memcache for caching. It's far from perfect... ;)

best regards 

philipp

Am Samstag, den 11.12.2010, 11:41 +0100 schrieb Wyo:
> After being told to create my own API/XAPI instance 
> (http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/XAPI-server-unusable-tt5796609.html) I've 
> looked at how to set up a server. Well the current procedure using osmosis etc 
> is simply impossible for me and I guess for a lot of others as well. IMO if it 
> were easier to set up a server, many more would do it, meaning a lot less load 
> on the current infrastructure. IMO a API caching proxy would do the job as well 
> and doesn't need to handle Gigs of files.
> 
> Lets say such a proxy exists, than requests to the API are directed at the proxy 
> and only if the proxy doesn't contain the data, the request is forwarded to an 
> API server. Assuming further such proxy exists on the internet anyone allowed 
> could use such a proxy. So in the future only proxies may access the API server 
> directly, any user has to connect via a proxy. And if this still means too much 
> load on the API server, primary and secondary proxies could be created etc. This 
> works similar as a P2P network.
> 
> To have as many as possible proxies running in the internet means to stick with 
> technologies easily available. That limits the choice almost entirely to a 
> PHP/MySQL solution, at least for the beginning.
> 
> Wyo
> 
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