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

[Raphaël Jacquot]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [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.

I could also arrange for this.
the research network we're on (renater) has a "no commercial use" policy
in which OSM would fit rather well :D