[OAM-talk] centralized hosting

[Anthony]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com> wrote:

>  > Amazon is not the only organization out there who can host a few hundred
> > terabytes of data.
>
> But they are the only place where you could 'easily' provision the
> machines to process datasets of this size without a massive capital
> investment up front.


Maybe if by "easily" you mean without asking anyone to lend or donate those
machines to us.  And if by 'easily' you mean without answering a few simple
questions, like how many machines you need.

Its not just about storing and hosting ... you
> have to get the data from its original format and projection into
> tiles suitable for serving.
>

I assume that can be done offline.  Can't the hosting be centralized but the
one-time processing decentralized?  What are we talking about, running
gdalwarp a few hundred million times?  If so, what are we waiting for?

I've got hundreds of gigabytes of tiles already rendered.  And that doesn't
count the terabytes of them that I've thrown away.  What I need is a
permanent home for them, where I can access them as I need them, so I can
get them off my hard drive, so I can start making more.

I'm fairly certain we can find someone willing to host OAM for us, very
cheaply.  If anyone else is interested in working with me on this, drop me a
message.  I ask for two things.  Don't tell me something is impossible when
you haven't asked around to see if it's possible, and don't forward messages
that I send you privately to a public mailing list.
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