slighty OT: new hardware for a mapserver application

Dylan Beaudette dylan at IICI.NO-IP.ORG
Tue Aug 9 11:55:10 EDT 2005


On Monday 08 August 2005 11:02 pm, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Hey Tyler,
>
> do you mean this one?
>
> http://www.geospatial-online.com/geospatialsolutions/article/articleDetail.
>jsp?id=118595
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>

thanks!

>
> >>> Tyler Mitchell <tylermitchell at SHAW.CA> 08/08/05 06:36pm >>>
>
> If you are using PostGIS or databases at all, I recommend digging up an
> article on optimising spatial data access (includes from a hardware
> perspective).  Paul Ramsey provided some great tips in an article a year or
> so ago, somewhere in here: http://www.geospatial-online.com/
>
> Tyler
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dylan Beaudette <dylan at IICI.NO-IP.ORG>
> Date: Monday, August 8, 2005 9:34 am
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] slighty OT: new hardware for a mapserver
> application
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > We are currently in the process of ramping up the scale of a
> > mapserver-based
> > application, and thus in search of some new hardware.
> >
> > So far we have priced out some dual processor systems, with the
> > best deal from
> > Dell. The machine will be running the UNIX version of mapserver.
> > The large
> > quantity of imagery and high density vector files will require a
> > powerful
> > machine in order to keep latency low.
> >
> > Any suggestions or stories about previous purchases (related to a
> > mapserver
> > application) would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > --
> > Dylan Beaudette
> > Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
> > University of California at Davis
> > 530.754.7341

-- 
Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341



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