[Info-vax] How would you load balance excess webserver traffic between multiple OpenVMS servers?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-01-11 18:21:24 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> On 2021-01-11, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> If you're thinking about a Parler-class app for instance, there are 
>> already some discussions of what's involved there that are going on 
>> else-network and which you may want to review?even if you're not 
>> re-hosting Parler, the problems are broadly similar at scale.
>> 
> 
> Ok, _that_ possibility never occurred to me when I read Bob's original 
> post. Do you know something that the rest of us are unaware of ?

I do not know the goal here, nor the requirements and expectations here 
past what has been posted, as D W / Bob / OP has not chosen to be 
forthcoming on those details.

Parler is a "for instance" web-hosting and database configuration 
example from current times, with very recent discussions of risks and 
scale and trade-offs involved, and all of which can be learned from.

Whether hosting Parler on OpenVMS might be the goal here? I do not know.

> I would not recommend VMS as it stands today for such a high-profile 
> and potentially hostile environment.

Nor would I.

And I'd question the use of the word "potentially" there, in the case 
of Parler.

The folks that are running Parler are seemingly learning about some of 
these risks and related concerns, too.

This as the Parler data has been breached/dumped/hacked. And that's 
including EXIF data and supposedly-deleted data. This per unverified 
reports.


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