To publish your Tilemill map

Design your map in Tilemill, even your own OpenStreetMap style customization, and export it as MBTiles ! MapBox hosting is the prefered solution, but you can still host and serve your exported MBTiles file yourself !

To mirror a WMS server

Again, using landez, you can build a MBTiles file from a WMS source (orthophoto...), and then serve those layers yourself as tiles (at the speed of light !).

To mirror tiles services

Using landez, you can gather tiles from a tiles service, and package them in a .mbtiles file locally.

If you plan on mirroring public tile services, do not forget to add attributions and make sure it respects the terms of service. Most services restrict bulk downloads [1].

wget https://github.com/mapbox/mbutil/zipball/master -O mbutil.zip
unzip mbutil
cd mapbox-mbutil*
sudo python setup.py install

mb-util --scheme=osm FILE.mbtiles /path/to/DEST/

Cache headers

If you the master on board, tweak the cache headers :

With Apache :

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 7 days"
Alias /DEST /path/to/DEST/;

With nginx :

server {
    location /DEST {
        expires 7d;
        alias /path/to/DEST/;
    }
}

Boost with subdomains

Browsers limit parallel downloads on the same domain. If you can declare subdomains (a.yourserver.org, b.yourserver.org, ...), it will speed-up tiles download.

var map = new L.Map('map');
map.addLayer(new L.TileLayer('http://{s}.yourserver.org/DEST/{z}/{x}/{y}.png'));
map.setView(new L.LatLng(43.60, 1.45), 14)

var provider = new MM.TemplatedLayer('http://{s}.yourserver.org/DEST/{z}/{x}/{y}.png');
var map = new MM.Map('map', provider);
map.setCenter({lat: 43.60, lon: 1.45}).setZoom(14);