[Mapserver-users] Hardware to support a Mapserver application.

[Tyler Mitchell]

Bo, there are such a wide array of implementations going on, you can see a
good example of the kinds of setups people have at:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Platforms_And_Processors.

Overall, you will probably find the processor speed and memory are your two
big drivers for performance on a w2k box - max out your RAM and get highest
speed processor as possible.
I doubt you will find any difference between the type of processor (when
compared on equal footing).
If you want to ensure some scalability, you may want to get a dual
processor capable motherboard but only get one processor until you see what
performance is like.  You may also want to ensure you have lots of room for
RAM upgrades in the future.  Just get fast hard drives and I think you'll
be fine, regardless of type, unless you want redundancy through SCSI RAID
setup.

All the best in your implementation.

Tyler



                                                                           
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Hi all -

I've developed a Mapscript based application for a customer. He want's to
set up his own 80x86 based web-server for deployment. What kind of Intel og
AMD bassed hardware is optimal for MapServer use ?.

The application is based on win2k, apache 2.0., php, mapscript and with
data
in tab files and a alphanumerical data stored in a MySql database (on the
same server).

The server will only be used for this Mapscript apllication. It wil be used
by relatively few users, but each user will result in a fairly large amount
of back-end dataproccesing.

The questions:

CPU - As fast as possible, but which type ??  Intel or AMD ? . Single or
dual CPU ?
Harddisk - SCSI or perhaps Serial ATA ??

regards Bo Thomsen


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