slighty OT: new hardware for a mapserver application

[Tyler Mitchell]

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
>