[Tilesathome] Rate limiting on upload page

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> We're testing a system that only accepts uploads if the server is more than a 
> certain amount idle. The reason being that map viewing is a realtime thing 
> that people rely on for a certain response rate, so some CPU/disk-access time 
> needs to be reserved for that no matter how many uploads are coming in.

I still think that we are a community of people with a common goal. Some 
of us may be a little brighter and some a little more stupid but nobody 
is malicious. If we are given workable mechanisms to ensure the common 
goal is not hurt (by e.g. too many uploads) then we will use them.

I dislike the attitude that tiles at home contributors must be forced to do 
or not do all kinds of things.

I would have thought that any development time would be better spent in 
just giving the client a method to throttle uploads for the time being 
(by using the

> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/Upload/go_nogo.php

mechanism) than to think about how to efficiently harden the server 
against evil (or stupid) users who disregard the "red light".

Bye
Frederik

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