[Talk-in] Moving tasks.openstreetmap.in to a new server

Asish Abraham Joseph asishabrahamjoseph at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 14:10:32 UTC 2020


Hi Sanjay,

I am ready to volunteer if any support required for setting up. Hope Sajjad might know me.

Regards,
Asish Abraham Joseph
KL, India

On October 7, 2020 6:54:18 AM UTC, Sanjay Bhangar <sanjaybhangar at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>Hope everyone is doing well in these crazy times.
>
>Around 5 years ago, we needed some hosting to run openstreetmap.in and
>tasks.openstreetmap.in - I had spare resources on a server hosted with
>hetzner.de and in the spirit of getting things up, we hosted things
>here
>"until we found a more permanent home". As often goes with things, it's
>been 5 years and things continue to be hosted on this box that Sajjad
>and I
>have been paying for and maintaining.
>
>It's been a privilege to have been able to contribute to the community
>and
>it makes me happy that people have found these resources useful (and
>complain when they go down :)) - unfortunately, it is time for us to
>retire
>the current server, and this is likely a good time to setup some
>infrastructure that is community-owned and managed.
>
>We plan to shutdown the current server at the latest on December 31st,
>2020, so it would be great to do this move before then.
>
>- For openstreetmap.in, this is currently just a static site and the
>plan
>is to move to Github pages as per
>https://github.com/osm-in/openstreetmap.in/issues/36#issuecomment-704711530
>.
> - For tasks.openstreetmap.in, we need somewhere that is able to run a
>Flask application.
>
>My recommendation would be to get VPS hosting with Digital Ocean or any
>other provider that seems reasonable (and ideally can be paid for in
>INR),
>and me and Sajjad would be very happy to work with anyone who is able
>to
>volunteer some time to setup and manage the new instance. Would be
>super
>happy if there's any other ideas for hosting this or folks volunteering
>:)
>
>With a low-cost VPS + managed database, I'd imagine our costs would be
>~Rs
>1,000 / month. If we can figure something cheaper, that's great. If it
>takes some time to figure out a way to get community contributions to
>pay
>to continue running this, I'm happy to pay for initial setup to get
>this
>move going if someone is able to own the process of moving, configuring
>the
>new server, etc.
>
>Thanks everyone who's reported issues over the years and helped to keep
>these resources (mostly) online. Looking forward to helping with this
>move
>and a long and prosperous future for the OSM-in community :-) .
>
>Cheers,
>Sanjay

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