slighty OT: new hardware for a mapserver application

[Brent Fraser]

Dylan,

  Here's some "slightly OT" information.  ESRI has a technical document
discussing web mapping system performance (among other things) of their
products:

http://www.esri.com/systemsint/kbase/strategies.html

Some of the information (network, cpu performance, etc) would apply to
Mapserver configurations as well...

Brent Fraser


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dylan Beaudette" <dylan at IICI.NO-IP.ORG>
To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] slighty OT: new hardware for a mapserver
application


> On Monday 08 August 2005 09:34 am, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> > 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!
>
> Thanks to everyone who responded, I have some good information on which to
> base my purchasing decision on now.
>
> Cheers!
>
> -- 
> Dylan Beaudette
> Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
> University of California at Davis
> 530.754.7341