Servers/Tile CDN
OpenStreetMap's own servers are run entirely on donated resources. To improve this capacity, OpenStreetMap needs more resources.
If you are a company or individual and want to help OpenStreetMap to run local tile server for your region, we will appreciate your help.
Tile delivery CDN node
Basic regional tile delivery server requirements:
- 8 GB RAM (at least; better 16 GB);
- Fast network connection with high usage or unlimited traffic in region; (Traffic is directed by GeoDNS)
- Storage of at least 146 GB excluding OS;
- Full root/sudo access;
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit (AMD64).
If you are able and willing to provide such setup, please send an email to operations@osmfoundation.org.
Current Tile CDN geographical setup: http://dns.openstreetmap.org/tile.openstreetmap.org.html
Tile delivery CDN monitoring: https://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap.org/tile.openstreetmap.org/index.html
Tile rendering cluster node
Tile delivery nodes are backed by rendering nodes. Basic requirements for a render node:
- 32 GB RAM (at least; better 128 GB);
- 6 or more CPU cores (12+ with HyperThreading);
- Storage: 700 GB SSD for database, 1.5 TB HDD (better SSD) for storing tiles;
- Fast network connection with high usage or unlimited traffic (at least 30 TB/month);
- Full root/sudo access (Remote Management beneficial eg: HP Integrated Lights-Out);
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit (AMD64).
If you are able and willing to provide such setup, please send an email to operations@osmfoundation.org.
Current Rendering cluster geographical setup: http://dns.openstreetmap.org/render.openstreetmap.org.html
Rendering cluster monitoring: http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/render.openstreetmap/index.html
Traffic estimates
- Outbound Traffic breakdown per country in bits per second. (May 2016)
- growth rate is approximately 3% month on month;
- inbound is approximately 10% of outbound;
- during January 2013 the tile.openstreetmap.org CDN served approximately 37400GB (inbound+outbound)
- munin statistics (live): https://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/render.openstreetmap/network_out.html (rendering servers) https://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/tile.openstreetmap/network_out.html (tile cache servers)
