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Hi there I want to build a full planet map tiles service that should serve a lot of traffic, something like 300M requests/day.

I thought about:

  1. PostGIS Server
  2. Tile Servers (behind a load balancer)
  3. CDN for tile servers (SaaS, not self hosted)

Since I want to run it on a cloud provider (google/aws), is there a way to share-cache between tiles server so that they can auto-scale or even run on spot instances? (thus can be terminated in a 2-3 minutes heads up)

asked 09 Sep '19, 08:00

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edited 09 Sep '19, 08:02


The bottleneck when rendering new tiles is the PostGIS database and its disk storage, not the actual rendering of tiles. Therefore I am not sure if scaling up the number of tile servers but not scaling up the PostGIS database is any good. A more promising approach in my opinion would be to have a fast local PostGIS database on the tile servers that may be fed from one master PostGIS using Slony or another PostgreSQL replication mechanism. That would give you a startup time for a new tile server of a couple of hours (better than the ~16 hours it would require to actually import a full database) AND you'd be distributing the database load. But YMMV - if you expect most of those 300m tiles/day to be for the same hot spots then the CDN and the tile server's cache will already take away most of the load.

To answer your question, mod_tile and renderd support "pluggable storage backends" (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2013-March/026689.html) which is something you might want to explore, however I am not aware of anyone using that in production.

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answered 09 Sep '19, 09:41

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So, assuming that I have a machine image (AMI) with PostGIS + Render on it, how can I put (and scale) more than 1 instances behind a Load Balancer and make them autoscale? the Load Balancer will send a request to each render at a time thus creating same files on the renders...how can I share the cache between of all them (metafiles) ?

(09 Sep '19, 09:58) LiorM

Options:

  • use the pluggable storage backends (link in previous message, and as I said, these are mostly uncharted waters) to implement a shared cache;
  • use a network-mounted drive as a tile cache (depends on what your cloud provider supports)
  • use local storage and rsync
(09 Sep '19, 11:19) Frederik Ramm ♦

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