[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <ml5b1d$6ho$1 at dont-email.me>,
	"Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
> On 6/8/15 10:29 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
>> Exactly.  I would never run a webserver on a machine that was intended
>> to do the data processing for the business.
> 
> That makes it a bit awkward to run a business on a computer these days
> where so much of running a business involves producing and consuming web
> services.
> 

How so?  The web server can contact other systems on the network.  Why
should I expose my database system to the world when nothing on it needs
to be available until after some other system has processed it?  (just
one example)  Think of the webserver as yet another corporate firewall.
Having it on a system by itself with only limited access to other systems
helps protrect them while still making anything the outside world needs
to see available.  And, there are other reason for the one box - one
application model.  That is one of the greatest powers of virtualization.

bill

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