[Tilesathome] Tiles at home unavailable all Monday

[Frederik Ramm]

Lars,

 > Towards the end of today's experimentation, he
> started a MySQL operation that unfortunately is still running and 
> sucking all the juice out of the "dev" server.  All uploads are 
> blocked, and tile viewing is probably too slow to be useful. Even 
> more unfortunate, OJW can only return to this on Monday evening 
> and he's the only one who can do this.

Oliver has done a lot of cool things for and with tiles at home (he 
invented the thing if I'm not mistaken), and probably never expected 
that running tiles at home and tending to servers and processes would be as 
demanding as writing the stuff in the first place.

He said in a recent post that he'd be happy if a few more people would 
help run the server, so he's aware of the problem and does not intend to 
stand in anybody's way.

We only have to find a good way to share t at h maintenance work - on dev, 
currently, or on other servers in the future - between a few people, and 
everbody is going to be happy. Oliver can then continue to contribute to 
t at h on his own time as he did in the past, without having to bother too 
much about what the servers are currently doing or not doing, and if 
he's away for a week or two we wouldn't even notice. New server "admins" 
will hopefully also bring in some optimization knowledge, and be able to 
find the weak spots in t at h.

 > This is very much like all these "404" tiles of varying
> color that we see, instead of the oceantiles we were having only a 
> week ago.  

All this can be fixed with a little SQL juggling. It really isn't as if 
the whole system is broken.

> I know a dead-end street when I see one.  I shall have to find 
> other ways that take me forward.

What about this deal: I will ask OJW if he makes me one of the deputy 
server admin for tiles at home, and in return YOU will do the same ;-) that 
way, you will not be able to complain in the future as you are partly 
responsible. Sounds great, doesn't it?

Only drawback would be that we'd have to find somebody to join the team 
who works during the day.

Bye
Frederik

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