Configuring GeoServer for maximum performance and availability

One of the best things about GeoServer, apart from the quality of the software and community, is the fact that because it is free, you will not be hampered by cost considerations when increasing the capacity of your production environment. Unlike the Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software that commonly utilizes a licensing model based on the number of physical or virtual cores, the software runs on.

Since there is no financial implication (in terms of software licensing) on running multiple instances of GeoServer, the only limitation will be the amount of infrastructure you can afford to implement. With the growth in cloud computing and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers ...

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