[Info-vax] Accuweather new contract

[johnson.eric at gmail.com]

On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 2:45:49 PM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:

> To me a web server is just a listener socket, accepting connection 
> requests, with some capability to do something with some of the data 
> sent by a client.  Perhaps over-simplified, but, that's what it does.

That's a fair summary.
 
> With sufficient specifications, I cannot see why a web server could not 
> be implemented on VMS to satisfy any requirements.  Even a large cluster 
> running multiple copies of the web server to meet the volume of 
> connection requests.  (No, I haven't volunteered to write such.)

In my experience, that code is always just slower and less scalable than
the same counterpart on Linux. I've participated in such an in house
project (home grown http server on VMS) and it would always have higher
latency than its counterpart on Linux.

After years of disbelief and frustration, I spent a few weeks really digging
into it, and from what I could observe, much of the blame really sat at the
hands of the TCP/IP stack. Interestingly enough, both Multinet and
TCP/IP services came up short.

I believe its possible to fix them, but it will take time. 

EJ