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

[Graham Jones]

Sounds like Colin has done better than me

I use CloudNext web hosting (http://cloudnext.co.uk).   They offer a
service with 'unlimited' storage and bandwidth, which sounded good for
tiles and has the advantage of allowing python scripting as well as php and
perl, so I can run tilecahce on it without any trouble.   I think it costs
more like £70 odd per year for the 'unlimited' version.

I started off with one of their virtual servers hoping to use it for
rendering, but the affordable version only came with 20GB storage (which
has to include the operating system), so it was easy to fill it up.  Also
it did not have enough memory to compile Mapnik2, which I wanted to use
because I like the Carto styling language, which needs Mapnik2.

I am very much under-using my 'unlimited' hosting package, so if anyone is
interested in developing their own UK web maps, I am happy to host them for
them - just let me know.

Regards


Graham.


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Graham Jones
Hartlepool, UK.
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