slighty OT: new hardware for a mapserver application

[Rick Levine]

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2005-06/msg00220.php

This is the top of a series of threads in the PostgreSQL mail archives that
contains a lengthy discussion on exactly this topic.

Cheers,

Rick

UMN MapServer Users List <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU> wrote on
08/08/2005 11:36:31 AM:

> 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
> >