On May 30, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Randy George rkgeo...@cadmaps.com wrote:
Cloud options are looking interesting.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ Windows, Linux, Solaris options
I imagine ESRI license entanglement with virtual servers could be a
problem. But no problem at all with Open Source GIS
At Camptocamp, we have deployed several production instances of web mapping
applications on Amazon. For example, Map veloland (
http://map.veloland.ch/?lang=en) a 100k+ unique visitors/day is hosted this
way and use several OS software (Puppet, HAproxy, MapServer, TileCache,
Pylons, MapFish,
One thing to consider using a cloud approach with Amazon is the license
agreement concerning your data.
Under the Patriot Act in the US all data hosted in the US could be made
available to the US government.
Not all corporations are ready to live with that.
Richard
2009/5/30 Randy George
Yea and eventually North Korea will launch a nuclear weapon at the USA
so better safe than sorry.
Me, I'm looking at the Principality of Sealand.
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James Fee
http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com
On May 31, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Richard Desrochers wrote:
One thing to consider using a cloud approach
, May 31, 2009 8:34 PM
To: rkgeo...@cadmaps.com; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Comparison between MapServer/OpenLayers and
ESRI ArcIMS
One thing to consider using a cloud approach with Amazon is the license
agreement concerning your data.
Under the Patriot Act in the US all
Cloud options are looking interesting.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ Windows, Linux, Solaris options
I imagine ESRI license entanglement with virtual servers could be a problem.
But no problem at all with Open Source GIS stacks. No license to get tangled
with load balancing and auto scaling
WeoGeo has FME Server running in the Amazon Cloud. Hopefully next week
at the FME User Conference they'll release their benchmarks and see
what it can do scaling up.
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James Fee
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On May 30, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Randy George rkgeo...@cadmaps.com
wrote:
Cloud options are
