On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Eric Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?" >
Which, in turn, begs the question, "What do you mean by 'successful'?" A better way to go about this would be to estimate what kind of traffic you estimate, and what would the majority of this traffic be doing. Most modern technology (hardware with proper disks, fast network cards, etc.), correctly configured, would happily handle most reasonable (non-Yahoo/Google/Flickr/Twitter) traffic. MapServer, for example, has stood many an onslaught. The same would likely be true of GeoServer and the ilk. > > > > > 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 >> > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
