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 >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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 >
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