[OSM-talk-be] osm.be

[Dennis Bollyn]

While all the suggestions are nice, I think we're mostly looking for a
company to sponsor OSM (eg. giving the hosting for free).

I don't personally know the owner of openstreetmap.be, I only recalled a
conversations from the mailing list where it was stated that the owner was
"OSM friendly). Since I am unable to be very involved in the creation of
this new website, I would prefer if someone else served as the point of
contact. Contact details can easily be found via WHOIS/dns.be.

Best regards,

Dennis


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Teddy <eddy at swing.be> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> Personally I use www.icdsoft.com to store my websites since more than 10
> year.
> For 72$/year (48$/year if renewal) in economic !
> It depends the volumes of storage and transfert (the business formule :
> 10$/m and 8$/m if renewal).
>
> There are new servers in Bulgaria for 4.6€/m but I don't yet use it (the
> support service is the same).
> http://www.icdsoft.com/hosting/shared/bulgaria
>
> Economic and very competent support. They answer questions in a few minutes,
> 24/24h 7/7d !
> I am very very satisfied with the service and support !!!
>
> King regards.
>  *__Eddy__*
>
>
>
>
> 2013/9/10 Glenn Plas <glenn at byte-consult.be>
>
>>  On 2013-09-10 14:08, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
>>
>>   Thanks. Could you contact him to ask ?
>>
>>  I propose to start considering to setup a Belgian OSM site in Dutch,
>> French, English and German if we have enough people to translate in German.
>>
>>  Would Drupal be appropriate to setup such a multilingual site ? Do
>> anyone of us know Drupal (or any other easy and well know tool that would
>> do the job) or mediawiki ?
>>
>>  What would be the hardware we need ? (CPUs, RAM, hard disk)
>>
>>
>> It would totaly depend on what you mean by Belgian OSM site.
>>
>> I would personally not use drupal for such a site but use a framework
>> (staying in the PHP realm here) like Laravel4 or Symphony2.    But that
>> also depends on what I have in mind for such a site.   I do think Drupal
>> and wordpress is overkill, I use wordpress for my personal blog just
>> because I'm a developper , so by definition I'm lazy and don't want to
>> spend too much time.  Drupal/Wordpress and the like are pretty much OK for
>> a blog oriented site.
>>
>> You could run this from a 20$ per month linode (see
>> https://www.linode.com/ ).  In fact, using nginx as a webserver, mariaDB
>> instead of mysqlDB and spending a good chunk of time tuning it, you can run
>> several sites easily.  I have like 10 of them on it and also a piwik
>> instance (~= opensource version of what google analytics does).  So another
>> 10 sites use it to store visitor data in in (just like analytics do it).
>> I do have some caching going on , good practise anyway as most of the files
>> are just staticly served but come from
>>
>> If your goal is to start building up database, do tileserving or create
>> nominatim DB's, the specs go up a lot.  Then you would arrive in the price
>> for a cloud server range of a co-located server, cloud servers aren't
>> suited either for heavy indexing,  a solution for that would be to use a
>> something like a EBS device (elastic block store - see
>> http://aws.amazon.com/ebs ) and is expensive.
>>
>> On the other hand, if you want a true 'beast' of a server, I would
>> recommend (of course) linux + the Revodrive 3 x2 (personally I would get 2
>> of those and stripe them over the PCI bus) see
>> http://tweakers.net/serie/1908/revodrive-x2/
>>
>> That drive has insane specs compaired to regular SATA SSD's.  Check out
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql/benchmarks  there is one
>> that has numbers from a revodrive from the past, and you'll see why I would
>> use that one.   The performance is huge compaired to the price range.
>>
>> I would also not pay too much attention to CPU's.  Most of them will be
>> able to server thousands of sites in the webserver scenario.   Given the
>> huge datasets in the latter case, I would totally spend all my money on
>> RAM, the more the better as it speeds up postgreSQL and indexing
>> exponentially.
>>
>> So, question back:  What are you planning to do with the site ?
>>
>> Glenn
>>
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