[OSM-talk-be] OSM in French and Dutch

[Glenn Plas]

Any of these would confortably work, the 64Gb would be my selection :

Linode 48GB	48 GB	12 Cores	768 GB SSD	20 TB	40 Gbps	4000 Mbps	$.48 / hr
($320 / mo)	Sign Up
Linode 64GB	64 GB	16 Cores	1152 GB SSD	20 TB	40 Gbps	6000 Mbps	$.72 / hr
($480 / mo)	Sign Up
Linode 80GB	80 GB	20 Cores	1536 GB SSD	20 TB	40 Gbps	8000 Mbps	$.96 / hr
($640 / mo)

Not cheap.  For that money, a good bare metal budget server (with SSD's,
decent CPU's and as much ram as you can) would be cheaper in the long run.

As you can notice before, my laptop with 2 SSD's in stripe are faster
than any virtual machine/hosting and even real hardware server.

So if you are good at building machines (or selecting hardware) you
could gain a lot by doing it yourself.

I know linode the best, from all VM providers , I think they are the
fastest, but I haven't tested an AWS (amazon) host that I could compair,
because I had no access to one.

You could also be smart and split the work instead of doing it on 1
server you can spread it out over:

- frontend(s) (nginx )
- render servers (anything, tilemill, renderd etc)
- postgres database server(s)

This *could* be made cheaper like that.  and you could make combo's of
server flavors if you have that option at the VM-farmer:

for renderers, you can take a compute node, for the webservers, you only
need some local file cache to store local tiles so take a cheaper file
serving node.  And for the database, a memory optimized node etc.

Sometimes more small dedicated servers work faster than 1 giant
all-purpose one.

Amazon has a list here https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

But amazon is very expensive.

The main advantage is when you need more parallel rendering, renderd can
actually scale it's rendering horizontally.

As always , how deep you want to go is up to yourself.

Glenn



On 09-08-16 16:47, joost schouppe wrote:
>     For benelux (which would be enough to cover a Belgian-only Tile server).
>     expect around 40$.  The linode 8GB one would suffice.
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> And how about a worldwide server?
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