OSM's future. Was: Re: [Openstreetmap] OSM Performance is terrible

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 07:24:24AM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:34:35AM +0000, SteveC wrote:
> > tile does about 50 Gb a month, from looking at it's logs. www is
> > harder to estimate but it'd be similar. That's what they're doing
> > today, it's increasing with time and I'd guess that if it suddenly
> > becomes more usable then usage will also go up.
> 
> 50GB a month is very little in the US: That type of bandwidth can be
> bought for cheap. I'm currently paying $100/month for a dedicated
> server with 1000GB/month bandwidth, just for comparison, and that's
> with a dedicated server inluded, so presumably at least as good for
> colo.

50GB/month isn't that much in the UK either. However the sorts of places
that have cheap bandwidth don't tend to have cheap space, so finding
room for 5+ machines that presumably aren't even rackmount gets harder.

J.

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