Gregory's ServerThe new #OpenStreetMap server's name is Piasa, because the OSMF names its servers for dragons, because “there be dragons”. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasa> Piasa cost the OSMF €3,846.
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The new #OpenStreetMap server's name is Piasa, because the OSMF names its servers for dragons, because “there be dragons”. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasa> Piasa cost the OSMF €3,846. 2 comments
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#OSM's senior SRE, @Firefishy, tells us that the new server was required because we were running out of capacity in the US. It will be used for renderings/updating the default map style used on https://osm.org.
Here are the hardware specs: <https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/servers/piasa.openstreetmap.org/>