[OSM-dev] Tile server

Cartinus cartinus at xs4all.nl
Sat Jun 22 22:02:23 UTC 2013


For testing/proof of concept most people start with something smaller
than a world database. E.g. a country or a state extract.

<http://blog.geofabrik.de/?p=241>

On 06/22/2013 11:19 PM, malcolm stanley wrote:
> If you look here http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/block-storage/pricing/ you
> will see pricing for Rackspace SSD is $0.70 cents per GB per month.
> Its hard to compare apples to apples as they include IO in the price.
> Having said that, it looks like at that price a 500G volume for a world
> database would run about $350 per month.
> a comparable Amazon volume would be far less @12.5 cents as opposed to
> $0.70, but then you have to pay IO AND you can only use them on larger
> instances, so you are going to cost up on that side.
> 
> Its almost like you need a case study comparing the offerings based on
> specific usage profiles.
> 
> for instance, a dev instance on amazon is going to cost less (I **think**)
> because you would have low IO and low disk costs.
> as you ramp the IO up and start to add performance to AMZ, that would
> probably change pretty quickly
> 
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> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:58 AM, malcolm stanley
>> <a.malcolm.stanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm sure there are a lot of people like me that need low cost prototyping
>>> environments;
>>> rather than saying 'Amazon is inappropriate', perhaps we need to
>>> collectively develop a guide that says 'here is how you configure one'.
>>> I'm happy to help with that by documenting my own experience if that is
>>> useful.
>>
>> Rackspace and Digital Ocean offer SSD-based storage options.  Not sure
>> if it qualifies as "low cost" but it's available.
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Ollie
>>
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