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Yesterday and today I couldn't connect to the server. Server problems? What risks is it in the future that the server is not reachable?

kind regards
Tomas

Hi Tomas

Yes we do have server problems lately due to too many web service requests. Our two servers are now at the limit of what they can handle and sometimes even above their limits.
We will order a third server in the next couple of days and this new server will be reserved for users who help us share the server costs. A first table of the expected cost is here : http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/258.page#1468
In order to do this we need to count requests and credits per ip address and per user. We will be able to use the same mechanism to limit the number of requests per ip address on the free servers. I am afraid we may have to introduce a maximal number of credits per ip address and time slot on the free servers as well.

Regards

Marc

Thanks for the quick answer.

The solution sounds good. As we not do many requests we would appreciate that the quality can be better even if it has been very good so far.

Hi,

I'm afraid I'm part of the reason the server is slow. I am building an application that attempts to geocode several hundred feeds per hour using the RSS to GeoRSS Converter web service. (Usually, there will only be a few items per feed.)

http://feeds-on.info

I would be happy to contribute the 60 euro to the project to pay for the load I'm putting on your resources.

However, I would prefer to develop something in PHP that I can run locally. The reason is that running locally would be much faster than web requests.

This seems that it would be a very difficult task since it involves language processing.

Any ideas as to how I should proceed?