Thanks Chris, I'm trying to dig up some better stats to put out there for comparison. And maybe a simple "hits/month" is meaningless in this context.
And maybe a question I should really try to answer is "What level of traffic would be considered 'successful' for a national geospatial basemap?" -Eric -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-209-6818 USGS Geographer Center of Excellence in GIScience PhD Student CU-Boulder - Geography On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Christopher Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:23:37PM -0700, Eric Wolf wrote: >> Hey All, >> >> I'm trying to gather some data on how well the various map servers >> (GeoServer, MMS, ArcIMS, MapGuide, GeoMedia WebMap, etc) handle large >> volumes of users - on the order of 1M hits/month. > > ... a *month*? Doing what, I guess is the question. I serve 2 million > tiles a day off one old server; based on some back of the envelope > numbers, I'd say that's probably about 50,000 users a day. (Possibly > more; I don't have stats handy.) In the big scheme of things, this is > practically nothing: OpenStreetMap, for example, serves 20 times this > many tiles (ranging up towards 400 requests/second). > > http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/tile.openstreetmap.html > > Clearly, doing interactive editing and the like are much different, but > even OSM's editing stats far outstrip '1M hits/month': In the past > month, 7500 users have made something along the lines of 15-20 million > edits, with some days reaching more than 2 million edits in a single > day: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Statistics > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
