[OHM] server offline - investigating

[Tim Waters]

Hi,

On 10 August 2016 at 18:51, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com
<todd.d.robbins at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm curious why we don't move to a cloud hosting provider? Maybe Heroku,
> DigitalOcean, AWS?

The existing set up works with the API database, replication and tile
generation (and overpass and planet dumps) all on the same box. It
could be set up separately of
course which would require someone with the time and knowledge to do
so. The API is the least demanding I think, but tiles take a lot of
disk space, and the PostGIS database that makes them needs a fair bit
of RAM (and SSD speeds I think). I think that cloud hosting offers
little in the way of good disk space and RAM, without costing a fair
bit.  And that brings me to another issue - cost.

Cheers,

Tim