At Camptocamp, we have deployed several production instances of web mapping applications on Amazon. For example, Map veloland ( http://map.veloland.ch/?lang=en) a 100k+ unique visitors/day is hosted this way and use several OS software (Puppet, HAproxy, MapServer, TileCache, Pylons, MapFish, GeoExt, OpenLayers, ExtJS and others). 0$ investment, handle of slashdot effect or scalabality, flexibility are big advantages of Amazon cloud computing (I'm not an Amazon sales representative, only an happy user ;-). Cédric
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Andrew Turner <ajtur...@highearthorbit.com>wrote: > > On May 30, 2009, at 3:38 PM, "Randy George" <rkgeo...@cadmaps.com> > wrote: > > > >> Cloud options are looking interesting. > >> > >> http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ Windows, Linux, Solaris options > >> > >> I imagine ESRI license entanglement with virtual servers could be a > >> problem. But no problem at all with Open Source GIS stacks. No license > to > >> get tangled with load balancing and auto scaling where servers come and > go > >> as needed. Mostly I've seen small business interest since they tend to > take > >> overhead costs more seriously. > >> > >> It might be useful to include a Cloud based server solution addendum, > >> because that would be less optimal for an ESRI vendor and could look > good > >> compared to in-house hardware. > > We found it much better to own our entire solution (GeoIQ) due to > this. It's built either with our own pieces, or open-source pieces - > so we can deploy it to cloud, appliances, whatever without concern for > ToU, licensing, etc. It's definitely a huge boon for us as a > 'business'. > > >> > >> Unfortunately, medium and large organizations seem to have budget > >> allocations already in place for the big ticket approach. But then in > this > >> economy even that could be changing. > > Yes, that is a questionably valid (and even provably invalid) > assumption. Big ticket items kick in all kinds of departmental, IT > team, budgetary, sustainability, etc. questions. They're looking for > easy entry items that maybe they can even slip into their > discretionary budgets without invoking too much beauracracy. > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- CTO Geospatial Camptocamp SA Cédric Moullet PSE A CH-1015 Lausanne www.camptocamp.com / www.mapfish.org / twitter.com/cedricmoullet / mapfishblog.blogspot.com/ +41 79 759 69 83 (mobile) +41 21 619 10 21 (direct) +41 21 619 10 10 (centrale) +41 21 619 10 00 (fax)
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