Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer in Production environment

[Arne K. <ak...@op...>]

Luca Morandini wrote:
> On 26/10/09 22:20, jberti wrote:
>   
>> So yes, we could cache most of our data as some gets renewed once a week and
>> others daily. Of course we would have to set it up that it only gets cached
>> outside of the refresh times.
>> Would Geowebcache be the way to go for this caching or not?
>>     
>
> Simple caching can be accomplished by GeoServer layer configuration,
Just to clarify: That caching is a header sent to the client, so it's 
client-side caching only. If you have many different users, it will not 
reduce the load significantly.

Preseeding is one thing, you can also just clear the cache when the data 
changes, and thereby probably get most of the benefit. Again, depends a 
bit on whether you have many users viewing the same tiles or just a few 
users requesting many different areas. The next version of GWC will tell 
you cache hit rates, so you'll get the numbers easily.

-Arne