[mapserver-users] Try Again ... Large scale implementation

[Ed McNierney]

Chris -

This is a pretty complicated question.  The short answer is, sure -
MapServer can do that.  Most things could do it, depending on how much
hardware you throw at them.

You don't do into a lot of detail, and that makes it really hard to
answer your question well.  Saying "100's of hits per minute or even per
second" is a load range of 60 times - there's a long way between 100
hits a minute and 100 hits a second.  Do you know what your requirements
will be?

You might not want to use MapServer for everything.  You mention using
lat/long to return a city/zip, for example.  Depending on exactly what
you're trying to do (do you need the exact zip code that point lies in,
or do you need the nearest zip code centroid?) there might be other
(better) ways to address that specific task.

What kind of data are you using?  Do you have a single vector layer, 14
raster data layers, or 73 vector layers on top of a raster base map?
There's a huge range in there.

There are lots of folks here willing to help, but if you can possibly be
more specific about what your requirements are it will be MUCH easier to
help.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Casad [mailto:chris at casad.net]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 9:36 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] Try Again ... Large scale implementation


Hello:

I would really like to be able to use MapServer for my project but I
need
some evidence that it can handle what I need!!

I was wondering if anyone has used MapServer for a large scale
implementation where you could be having 100's of hits per minute or
even
per second.  It may or may not return an image. At the very least it
would
use a lat/long to return a city/zip.

Can MapServer handle a task like this?  Would we have to use a large
number
of servers to handle this number of requests?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Anyone have any
real
world implementations like this?

Thank you,
Chris