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

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I don't like the idea of servers serving dedicated regions because that 
would make it hard for the system to grow in the future. It would work as 
a short term soloution, maybe. but i don't think it is a good approach 
for the nearby future because if a new server is added it has to take 
away some parts to serve from other users. I would prefer to split server 
load by session, not by region. 
 
Tobi 
 
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- 
> Von: "Preben Mikael Bohn" <preben at chin.dk> 
> An: openstreetmap at vr.ucl.ac.uk 
> Betreff: Re: OSM's future. Was: Re: [Openstreetmap] OSM Performance 
> is	terrible 
> Datum: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:26:09 +0100 (CET) 
>  
> > what Do you think of a distributed architecture for OSM. Let anyone 
who 
> > is willing to support OSM run a bittorrent-style server for OSM. 
> > Servers are syncing p2p and anyone who accesses OSM gets redirected 
to a 
> > server around the world, i.e. randomly or in a more dedicated way. 
> > 
> > If only 5% of the users would be willing to do so server load would 
be 
> > reduced to a value that can be handled by any hardware and bandwidth. 
> And 
> > OSM power/bandwidth would grow with it's users. 
>  
> Personnally I think this is a great idea. I don't know if bittorent is 
to 
> complex (I think it should stay as simple as possible) so another 
approach 
> is to delegate different geographical regions to different servers 
(which 
> could also be placed physically close to the region it serves in order 
to 
> minimise network latency). This has the advantage that the space 
> requirement is also minimised (although there should be a central 
backup 
> somewhere). 
>  
> However if a bittorent solution is easy to maintain/install/etc, then 
this 
> would probably be easier to administer on a high level (delegation of 
> processing/space/etc)... 
>  
> I would be happy to host the danish region. :-) 
>  
> Best regards Preben 
>  
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