[mapserver-users] MapServer and 2000

[Ed McNierney]

Eric -

I have developed a commercial MapServer site (www.mapcard.com) for a customer and I'm hosting that site on a Windows 2000 system.  It manages and serves a couple of terabytes of raster and vector data sets covering the entire US, performs well, supports lots of users, and has not had a MapServer failure or been rebooted since the system went live in production in mid-December.  "Crappy" isn't an adjective I usually think of in connection with that system.

I also run MapServer on a Linux system internally.  The MapServer CGI app is pretty platform-neutral (although there are some data types available only on some systems due to implementation/vendor support limitations) and doesn't much care.  Systems management and administrative issues (IMHO) far outweigh feature/function issues - use the system you know!

If you have specific plans or requirements for your application, let us know and maybe we can give you more detailed info.

	- Ed

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


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Frost - HRA [mailto:EricFrost at HRandAssociates.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:22 PM
To: MapServer List (E-mail)
Subject: [mapserver-users] MapServer and 2000


Dear List,

How crappy (i.e. what are the limitations) of using MapServer on
2000/IIS.. I have passable Linux/UNIX skills and would probably
go that route, it would just save me the cost of a box (+ the added
maintenance) to install it on our existing machine.

Thanks!
Eric