[mapserver-users] Looking for advice for OGC Services Server hardware requirements

[Mark Korver]

We all know that benchmarking is no easy task.  Benchmarking when you
don't have the hardware in the first place makes things just a bit
more difficult.

I know this is not exactly the same thing.  But cloud services, like
Amazon EC2, which give you access to a number of base configurations,
with different hardware specs and os (nix and Windows) installs that
are ready to go can give you a good idea of what parts of the overall
pie are more important.  And who knows? You might even find that just
doing it in the cloud is the way to go.

The point is, you don't have to buy anything but server time to test
diff configs.

- Mark

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Jeff McKenna
<jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe this can help you.
>> http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/#presentation_109
>>
>
> I would like to add that there is at least some off-list talk of some
> Windows vs Unix benchmarking for the 2010 exercise
> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2010).  As the maintainer of
> MapServer 4 Windows (MS4W) I can tell you that the download/use statistics
> are staggering (very popular); it is used in production environments for
> both government and private industry.  I encourage you to give it a try
> (even though most developers on this MapServer mailing list are unix-based,
> don't let them scare you away from Windows, if you are more comfortable in
> that environment).
>
> Hope this helps a little.
>
> -jeff
>
>
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