To allow all of our users to download offline maps reliably and quickly, we need servers in many different locations. Some of these servers are rented, thanks to the donations we get.

But some of them are also hardware donations, where we are allowed to use otherwise underused hardware! A big thanks go to Mathias Klein as well as the French OpenStreetMap chapter @osm_fr, who provide us with server capacities in Germany and France respectively!

@CoMaps how many space do you need ? @osm_fr
@camille @osm_fr it's around 300GB, each map version is ~100 GB for the whole world and we like to keep 3 versions around, so that people who haven't upgraded the map yet still get maps in the meanwhile
@CoMaps what are the technical needs ? SSH access ? FTP access ?
@camille I believe either should work for getting the files up, the other need would be lots of traffic :D
@CoMaps @camille @osm_fr you meant « people who haven't upgraded the app* » or I got something wrong ?
@CoMaps @osm_fr I wounder if they could get hosted on halifax.rwth-aachen.de, one for the fastest #HTTP(S) + #FTP Servers in the #EU