Hey Jeff, I've had great performance with a GeoServer/OpenLayers setup.
GeoServer will offer you several configuration options- so you can tweak your environment to match your needs as they change. GeoServer supports shapefiles, postgis, and sql server- as well as several other data stores and will render WMS, WFS, WCS, KML, and plenty of other formats. PostGIS will not serve WMS directly (to the best of my knowledge)- but will allow you to extract GML and KML vector data from your SQL queries. Feel free to check out the Open GeoPortal application I developed using a fairly straightforward GeoServer/OpenLayers setup: http://www.opengeohost.com/maps/stlawrence/ http://www.opengeohost.com/maps/stlawrence/ This application has several commercial basemap layers and all the overlays are single tile WMS layers served up by GeoServer from a shapefile store. The search functionality is accomplished via WFS and CQL queries. Everything is wrapped up in an ExtJS layout- providing plenty of screen real estate for the various tools and tabs. Best of luck with your application and I hope I was able to help answer some of your questions! BRYAN -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Suggestion-for-hosting-platform-tp4910033p4910105.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
