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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-01-11, D W <ultradwc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, January 11, 2021 at 1:21:26 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 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 ?
>
> maybe :)
>
>> 
>> I would not recommend VMS as it stands today for such a high-profile
>> and potentially hostile environment.
>> 
>
> you would prefer linux or windows? I thought OpenVMS was made for hostile environments.
>

As mentioned already, Linux has a number of security and isolation
features that VMS is lacking.

> Putting each user in a RWED controlled box along with appropriate ACLs
> I would assume would outclass any other solution out there, as long as VSI has terminated all of their C strings properly. :)
>

If that's what you think security is all about in 2021 Bob, then you
simply don't have a clue about what is involved.

BTW, you don't even have to go through security, you can go around it.
That's exactly what I did and all the protections and ACLs would have
made absolutely no difference.

To everyone else: I keep warning you about security researchers possibly
taking a serious interest in probing VMS at some point in the future and
about everything that could come from that.

If Bob sets up some kind of conservative social networking environment
using VMS (which it is a poor choice for anyway), then that is _exactly_
what is going to happen.

Simon.

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