List of public Photon instances for reverse geocoding

[Freika]

If you have a Photon instance up and running, and willing to provide it for Dawarich users to utilize, please post it in this thread and I'll add it to the main message.

Two important things:

1. It would be good if you could provide SSL-protected connection and use rate-limiting of some kind, so your servers would not be flooded with hundreds of thousands of requests
2. To all who wants to use Photon instances from this list: ⚠️**USE THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK.**⚠️ This is YOUR private data you're sending to be reverse geocoded, keep that in mind. You have full responsibility for using 3rd party services and sending your data there to be processed.

Thank you!

Community public instances

• https://photon.koalasec.org/ by @rtuszik
• https://photon.donsomhong.net/ by @dhj65 (10 requests per source IP and second)
• https://photon.marsmathis.com/ by @marsmathis

[rtuszik]

Feel free to use:

https://photon.koalasec.org

[dhj65]

I'm offering my photon for free use as well:

https://photon.donsomhong.net

please note: request rate is currently limited to 10 requests per source IP and second. This might be increased or decreased, depending on the server load.

[dhj65]

I haven't noted any excess usage during the last 3 monthes... The limits have been disabled for now.

There was a problem, that nginx did not reload properly after update of the ssl cert. User requests probably failed during the last days. This is fixed now and a valid cert is used.

[TheRealNox]

Thanks a lot for that!
I had my own container, but got ressource limited (or what looks like it) with the recent update, so in the meantime, I went and use yours, Again, thanks for that!!

Please let me know is usage goes to high (I had 3000ish point to reverse geocode)

[TheRealNox]

Seems to be done at the minute @dhj65 ?

[marsmathis]

https://photon.marsmathis.com

No rate limit for now.
Location is Central Europe, four cores and 16 GB RAM. No idea whether this is too much or not enough, we’ll see.

Edit: Welp, I just had to limit the instance. Funnily enough, the reason was not hardware (CPU is at 0.3 % utilization), but rather the network as I only have around 2 MB/s down and the Photon requests were saturating my line.

Edit 2: Limit taken back out, I thought the requests saturated the line but it's the background update. All good.