Obviously software is important, but I think far more important is the hardware. Software can be configured to load balance between more than one machine if necessary.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:02 PM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Mano Marks Geo Developer Advocate Google, Inc. [email protected] http://twitter.com/ManoMarks _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
