I tried to publish a hosted feature service from Arc desktop using our AGOL for organizations account. The feature I uploaded was a point feature with about 50,000 records. It took a while but the feature was uploaded successfully and under My Content on AGOL it indicates the size of the service is 388kb. When I try to view this service in either the Map Viewer or Explorer I have all sorts of performance issues. The map view couldn't display the records and Explorer kept crashing Silverlight.
Is there a record limit or size limit to publishing feature services using AGOL for organizations? Is there a document that show you how to optimize large datasets for publishing as feature services? I increased the max # of records returned by the server to 100,000, would this mess up performance?
There are no size limitations in terms of the size of the data, but there are limitations in the amount of features any browser can successfully display at one time, and 50,000 is pushing it, certainly. Take a look at these resources here, here, and here; the first is a blog concerning displaying a large number of features in a web browser, the second and third are resources that will allow you to play around with adding numbers of features to a map in a web browser to test the performance.
What you'll really want to do is create two services; a hosted feature service and hosted tiled map service. If you publish them together, and use the tiled map service in Explorer, you'll be able to display all of the points in the data and display popups for the point features.
I have the same problem as everyone else with publishing a time enabled point feature service from ArcMap 10.1. It says the layer is there but it will not render. If I publish the same dataset from Arc Map 10.1 as a feature service but not time enabled it will draw. It is a very large dataset with 48,000 records. Is that just too big to display even when only displaying at large scales? I checked the features count with the query option and the count is 0. This is the Rest URL http://services1.arcgis.com/MA2nPVLxVTdAZLej/arcgis/rest/services/Residential_Permits/FeatureServer/...
