slighty OT: new hardware for a mapserver application

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hey Tyler,

do you mean this one?

http://www.geospatial-online.com/geospatialsolutions/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=118595

Best regards,
Bart

Bart van den Eijnden
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>>> Tyler Mitchell <tylermitchell at SHAW.CA> 08/08/05 06:36pm >>>
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
>