Servers, ramoth and bowser, in position.
The sysadmin team have brought some more hardware on-line for our delight. OpenStreetMap servers are named after dragons, taken from “Here be Dragons” the inscription denoting incomplete / unexplored places on historical maps. Learn more about OpenStreetMap dragons.
- azure – Java-XAPI. Experimental. Provides read-only OSM data from a refreshed XAPI code base. Azure has recently received a long anticipated disk upgrade.
- bowser – joins soup and fiddlestick as another Web Front End server. This server will make browsing the osm.org web site
snappier
for browsing the map, etc. - eustace – Web stats. Experimental. Tracks user behaviour across OSM servers to understand and improve user experience.
- gorwen and orm –geoDNS tile caching. gorwen is kindly supplied and hosted by Teleservice Skåne AB GeoDNS serves tiles from the closest tile server. The sysadmin team hope to have a North American server available shortly. We seek a host for other, geographically diverse servers. If you are interested and not worried by 100Mbits/s, please speak to a sysadmin on #osm-dev at http://irc.osm.org
- poldi – Nominatim. Provides search and geocoding of OSM data. Return of a local nominatim instance after a hiatus.
- ramoth – is the second database server. The successful fund raising campaign of December 2011 led to the installation of this server. This server increases the reliability and performance of OSM database operations. Current status: in rack, being configured.
We also welcome the two newest members of the server team, Ian Dees (iandees) and Sarah Hoffman (lonvia). They will be maintaining the Java-XAPI and nominatim servers.
Photo credit
Photo by Firefishy.
Question : the second db server ‘ramoth’ is in operation (mirroring the db) ?
Not yet. ramoth is in the rack, operating system is installed. Software is being configured. I’ve added that to the point on ramoth above.
I expect we’ll have another announcement when ramoth “goes live”.