FOSSGIS e.V. approved our (@TimMcCauley, @kevinkreiser and me) proposal (on German only, sorry..) to fund a global Valhalla server, for at least one year. Among other open-source services, they already host the global OSRM demo service since Mapbox shut down theirs, which is also used on openstreetmap.org.
On the technical side we'll run one server continuously building tiles for the planet (at around a 2-day interval since there's "only" 16 threads on the server). As a "service" server answering requests we'll only deploy a single server for now and await users' feedback. That'll need fairly strict rate limiting, so it won't be usable for any production service for third parties. However, we do hope to eventually bring back the service to openstreetmap.org as a third alternative, where it has been before, in Mapzen days. The feasibility and acceptance of that proposal will be determined further down the road.
We aim to have all endpoints live except for /transit_available and verbose /status. Limits will have to be fairly strict for the computationally expensive ones like /expansion, /centroid or /matrix, the others will be kept at generous levels. The Tilezen/Nextzen elevation tiles from Amazon Open Data (kudos where they are deserved) will be available for /height & costing.
That's great news, and we're very grateful to FOSSGIS e.V. for the funding. It'll be an important step to increase Valhalla's reach in the community, hopefully attracting more contributors along the way.
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