In my view this should be sufficient for light use and small datasets with a single GeoServer instance. GeoServer is pretty efficient. It is not possible to say for sure without knowing the size of your datasets and the number of concurrent requests you hope to support.
For Java web applications, RAM is a major issue. CPU can also be an issue if you have response-time requirements. Increasing the RAM of a virtual server is typically a straightforward procedure. The advantage of virtual servers is that you can provision a modest server and increase resources as required. There are other bottlenecks, such as the database. For our production deployments with many GeoServer servlets configured for app-schema (the biggest bloatware GeoServer has to offer), we use around 2GB RAM and run tomcat6 with (for example) -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m. But this is an extreme case. Kind regards, Ben. On 08/09/10 09:12, Kumaran Narayanaswamy wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone please let me know the minimum server requirements for hosting a > GeoServer based WebGIS Application. We are planning to host it on a Virtual > Private server with the following configuration > > > · 512 MB Dedicated RAM > > · 50 GB RAID protected storage > > · Linux Cent OS4 > > Database going to be used is PostgreSQL/PostGIS and we are planning to deploy > the application in either Tomcat or JBOSS Server. The application does not > have any Raster data and we have 4-5 vector layers which are also not heavy. > Can anyone advise if the above configuration is enough or will this be a > bottleneck for performance of the application? Please advise. Thanks. > > Regards > Kumaran > > > -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> Software Engineering Team Leader CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
