[Tilesathome] Distributed server idea

[Celso González]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:17:33PM +0100, OJW wrote:
> At SotM conference, various people discussed ideas for hosting tiles, much 
> more innovative than the "single combined database/webserver" idea that we 
> use at the moment.  
> 
> For example, most of the computing power we have is held by contributors 
> rather than being in the OSM server rack.  It's not always available, and we 
> don't necessarily trust every machine, and some machines have more facilities 
> than others (disk, bandwidth) but we could design a system that works around 
> those limitations.
> 
> I sketched an idea, and put notes at:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tiles%40home/Distributed_Server

Good, i like it.

> 
> No software exists yet of course, but I seem to remember several people 
> interested in server-side coding, maybe they would find a distributed project 
> like this interesting to develop?

I think that already there is a software that provides some of the specs
described in the wiki page: Memcached.
http://www.danga.com/memcached/

Also i think that we dont need the stats of most viewed tiles in a cache
enviroment and they are going to add more overhead.

Anyway, this is a first thinking, i have to study the doc in depth, but
im very interested in this project.

Best regards

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