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Hello Bruce,<br>
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There is no standard answer to your question. It all depends on
personal or business favour, small issues in maintenance and so.<br>
<br>
I for instance tried to host a mapset at hostGIS, but due to a strange
difference in installation with my test server, the datasets turned up
corrupted on linux. I then decided to purchase dedicated windows 2003
hosting and set up a mapserver myself with IIS for future use in
combination with sharpmap ans asp.net.<br>
<br>
Our mapserver related business is picking up. <br>
Our mapserver is currently serving about 1000 map requests per day.<br>
Expectation is that this will reach 5000 within the next month. The
main thing we are currently investigating is setting up tile caching to
speed up request/response.<br>
My guess is that 5 paying customers will turn a profit on the first
dedicated server, currently we have 2. 10 customers may be the limit,
but this is a wild guess.<br>
<br>
When we reach 5 paying customers, we will set up the next dedicated
server. This is the approach we are going to take. Loadbalancing is a
webserver related matter. This has nothing to do with mapserver
directly. I have also contacted 52north to set up a secured service for
mapserver. They have succesfull implementations of WSS and WAS on top
of WMS.<br>
<br>
So the main question to ask is;<br>
- What do you need right now for the actual demand? I wouldn't worry
too much about growing larger in the future, this issue will solve
itself at that time, look for load balancing when it looks like it
might become an issue. Manage your system(s) with care, watch the
stats, watch the response times per request.<br>
<br>
And then decide what to do to keep on track to fullfill demand. This is
an ongoing process.<br>
<br>
<br>
Bruce Cheney schreef:
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<div><span class="164241518-07112007"><font face="Arial" size="2">Hello
all. I am trying to find a typical system configuration for a
mapserver website. I have looked without any luck (could be I haven't
looked in the correct location). Can anyone recommend a typical
configuration. In other words: do you recommend a load balance
server, # of Application Servers, # of DB servers, etc. I realize this
may be application specific but some general guidelines would be really
helpful. For example, for an application server where MapServer is
the predominant resource user how many concurrent users could it be
expected to handle? </font></span></div>
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<div><span class="164241518-07112007"><font face="Arial" size="2">Many
thanks in advance for any input.</font></span></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Dutch801 Rm BT" size="2">Bruce Cheney</font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><strong>Gateway
Mapping, Inc</strong></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#0080ff" face="Arial" size="2"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.gatewaymapping.com/">www.gatewaymapping.com</a></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#808080" face="Arial" size="2"><em>801.221.7656</em></font></div>
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