[Talk-GB] [Semi-OT] affordable hosting for own tileserver?

[colin at thespillers.org.uk]

I use http://thebighost.co.uk/ for my websites, at £21.00 pa. but
they are very simple sites. I don't know what memory is available, but
the website advertises:

     Web hosting packages include the following:
     UNLIMITED Web Space
     Free Website Builder
     UNLIMITED Data Transfer
     UNLIMITED MySQL Db
     Powerful Control Panel
     UNLIMITED Email Accounts
     24x7x365 Support
     Instant Account Activation
     Virus Scanning
     PHP5 - Ruby/Rails - Perl

 Hope this helps

 Colin 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Whitelegg" 
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Sent:Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:15:32 +0000
Subject:[Talk-GB] [Semi-OT] affordable hosting for own tileserver?

Thought it would be a good time to ask about this as the whole topic
of running your own OSM tileserver has come up a lot lately.

Am wanting to develop Freemap (coubtryside-orientated OSM site) and
its mobile client, OpenTrail, further but the thing that's always
holding me back, and forcing me to restrict it to certain areas of the
UK only, are the limitations of the server. I've been given hosting
for the tiles themselves from Chris Jones at Swansea - which is
absolutely great (thanks Chris!) but in an ideal world I'd really like
is to run Freemap for the whole of the UK on my own dedicated space,
with control of data updates, including associated server side scripts
for searches, walk route generation etc.

Currently I do have hosting through Bytemark which is pretty good...
but osm2pgsql (the real rate determining step) fails to import due to
memory issues.

So is anyone aware of any hosting provider which costs no more than
say GBP25-30 a month (am willing to pay that much, but no more as this
is a not-for-profit project) and would allow me to maintain Freemap
and update the database weekly without encountering memory issues?
Rendering is not such a problem (IMX) as caching can be done - it's
the actual database import that's the problem.

Thanks,
Nick

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