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

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Steve Coast]
> Hosting. Do you know a webhost or university that will offer us
> hosting _formally_? They need to have more than one person who'll be
> responsible for the boxes and they'll probably have to sign some ToS
> :-(

I believe the University of Oslo, where I work, might be able to offer
hosting.  We are talking about rack-space in an air-conditioned
environment with redundant power supply and unlimited 100 mb/s
ethernet connection to the Internet.

The most relevant agreement would be the "power and net" type, were
the university provide power, rackspace and network connection, and
someone else take care of all the administration of the machines.

I had a chat with one of the people in charge (assistant director of
the computer center), and he saw no problem with hosting OSM, but
wanted an email with more info to be able to make a decision.

Is this interesting?  I already have one machine we can use (I
previously tried to set it up as the development machine), but I do
not believe it is powerful enough to have a serious impact.  So
someone need to provide rack-mountable machines.