[Talk-us] OSM applications used to help in disaster situations

[Dave Hansen]

On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 16:14 -0700, Sarah Manley wrote:
> I was initially steered toward a site called ushahidi.com, but we
> would have to load the software on a County Server and we currently do
> not have the server capacity to handle the additional traffic. Our
> desired solution would be to have the wiki hosted offsite. I was
> wondering if you might have any suggestions. Thanks for any help you
> can offer."

A lot of people are using EC2 for this kind of stuff these days: 

	http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

The idea would be that you set up and configure your VM, but don't
bother actually launching it (or paying anything) until your disaster.  

EC2 isn't exactly 99.9999% reliable, yet.  But, self-hosting is probably
no better.  

-- Dave