That's why Google uses banks of load-balanced ArcServer instances :)

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Mano Marks <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>> Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/
>> Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/
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