[talk-au] Slower tile.openstreetmap.org Access / Server Retirement

[Grant Slater]

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> On 15/01/2025 11:09 GMT Brendan Barnes <brenbarnes at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Firstly, a big thank you to AARNet and the OSM Operations Team for running the local render servers over the past five years. It's been a huge help to the project locally.

Yes. Thank you to AARNet.
I need to follow up discussions with Australian education and research communities who have reached out. It looks promising.

> As AWS kindly runs palulukon for us in US East (Ohio), are there any discussions with their team to consider also donating local compute from AWS Asia Pacific Sydney or Melbourne?

OpenStreetMap Operations manage "palulukon" our AWS tile server and it is funded by annually renewed AWS credits grant from AWS. It is currently unlikely we'd be able to receive additional credits from the AWS team currently sponsoring us. With the right contacts at AWS we could likely receive additional credits to fund additional resources.

> Similarly, Equinix runs tile servers in Europe, any discussions about a local Equinix datacentre with spare compute?

At Equinix (Amsterdam and Dublin) the servers, rack and internet connection are all managed directly by the OSM Operations Team.

Equinix has been very generous to OpenStreetMap, watch https://blog.openstreetmap.org/ for an announcement in the next month or 2. I would not feel comfortable asking them now for additional resource.

Kind regards,

Grant
Part of OSM Operations Team