[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <ml47on$p8t$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> On 2015-06-08 13:41:21 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:
> 
>> Bill Gunshannon skrev den 2015-06-08 15:20:
>>> In article <mkt1s9$i52$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>> 	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>> 
>>> What happened to "the right tool for the job".  Just what is it about 
>>> VMS that makes it a better choice for running a webserver than one of 
>>> the existing Unix options?
>> 
>> It is "better" if the source data already is on VMS.
>> In no other case is VMS "better" as an web server.
> 
> It's not even that clear-cut.  Even if the source data is already on 
> OpenVMS, it may well be beneficial to have the web server(s) running on 
> separate box(es), whether that is for software availability or load 
> sharing or caching or DDoS or network security partitioning or 
> otherwise.

Exactly.  I would never run a webserver on a machine that was intended
to do the data processing for the business.

> 
>> 
>>> Funny, you used mixed case in the sentence above.  The teletype is 
>>> gone. we actually have 52 lettters...
>> 
>> 58.
>> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzåäö
>> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÄÖ
> 
> 52?   David is being somewhat parochial.

Not David this time, bill.   :-)

> 
> Add Spanish with 27 letters (ñ) and the acutes (é, ó, etc), French 
> orthography, German, and add those to a host of other languages, and 
> pretty soon you've got Unicode.

I was, of course, merely refering to ASCII which has 26 upper and lowercase
letters.


> 
> Much like the too-short username fields tend to annoy Mr. Schenkenberg, 
> if your code isn't dealing with these characters in your user 
> interfaces, then you can be puzzling or even irritating a subset of 
> your customers.  Even for US-only products in the US, Spanish is 
> increasingly commonly used.  Having at least some of your content 
> localized into Spanish can help your users.
 
bill

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