I have been given the chance to spec out a server for our mapserver and need some help to take advantage of this. What I would like to do is to run mapserver on apache using postgresql/postgis as the database. I anticipate using only a few shapefiles for state /province boundaries and all of the rest on the postgres database. On that spatial database I have a table with 1.6 million entries, another with 180,000 entries updated daily and both of these are points, I will also have several tables with ploygons. I am using an html template for the maps but would like to use an interface like ka-map down the road. Currently I am using about 68 GB of disk space out of 138 GB however after the upgrade I would like to start adding some raster images. The peak number of hits an hour are around 200 but I know that will go up with an increase of speed. Since we are a MS shop I am looking for something that should be able to handle at least 3 times the number of hits per hour running on a MS server. However I also anticipating migrating to a linux based solution in the immediate future but for now I have to satisfy the powers that be.
Any suggestions based upon the sketchy outline above will be appreciated.
