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> I'm running a mirror for OpenStreetMap

Curious why you're running a mirror for OSM, is it public or for your private use? If you don't mind, I'd love to learn more about it; sounds super interesting to me.

Right, the incentives are adverse: if they lower quality of service for free offerings, they'll be rewarded with more paying customers for reliable service.

But quality does take money.

What are the incentives for more paying customers? Wikimedia Foundation, being a non-profit, has a lot less incentives to chase money at the expense of product quality.

The for profit parts are meant to chase money, and higher revenues justify higher management salaries ("I am running a bigger organisation so I deserve to be paid more"). This is widely accepted as being a motive for misaligned incentives in for profit businesses (with regard to takeovers) too.

Wondering then if you've tried the Snapshot API in wikimedia enterprise?