Uh, yeah. I mean no.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Paul Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > -- 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
