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

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On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 8:24:32 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-01-12 23:00:34 +0000, Jan-Erik S 鴇erholm said: 
> 
> > Right. So you make your platform and design decissions on whatever that 
> > clown of a president does or doesn't? And his misuse of some services. 
> > And Parler seems to have been a communication platform for those 
> > "national terrorist groups" that was part of the Capitol "incident". 
> > 
> > What has that to do with anything discussed here? 
> > 
> > No, I have not been on vacation, I just didn't made that connection...
> At the risk of stating the obvious... Absent those entities supporting 
> insurrection, sedition, or coup, or those entities involved with 
> activities considered illegal, approximately everybody hosting their 
> services on commercial hosting providers is fine. If an entity is 
> involved with or associated with insurrection, sedition, coup, illegal 
> activities, or suchlike, expect there'll be some pushback. 
> 
> For those that want to rehost your existing instances on AWS or 
> elsewhere, that's certainly worth consideration. I suspect interest in 
> re-hosting on an OpenVMS cluster will thin when the quotes and the 
> detailed project specs and timeline arrive at the customer for 
> consideration. Particularly prior to the OpenVMS x86-64 port. 
> 
> Bob was a strong supporter of the outgoing US President and his 
> policies and activities during the 2016 election. Prolly still a 
> proponent of the outgoing US President. 
> 

so businesses who support a certain political party can't purchase a vms solution? That sounds like a marketing solution DEC would make.

> Bob was then a proponent of re-hosting voting machines over onto 
> OpenVMS back around 2016, too. Seemingly uninterested in information 
> on election auditing and related voting-assurance activities (had sent 
> along various pointers, too), nor interested in seL4 or other product 
> alternatives that have targeted high-assurance and embedded 
> environments.
> -- 
> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

And I still am a proponent of developing a vms voting system but the pole stations would not need a vms box, only a clustered setup in the SOS offices of each state.

Voting would be by PC or PHONE app. Verification by text or email would be used.  30 days to vote and on election day until 8pm local time. Then that is it. vms tabulates and done in an hour.

NO PAPER BALLETS. NO FRAUD. AUDIT TRAIL WOULD BE AN IP TRAIL ON VMS. SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE. 

NO ONE STANDING AT A DOMINION MACHINE CHANGING VOTES. THE ONLY ONE HAVING ACCESS WOULD BE THE SOS AND A REP FROM EACH PARTY WITH EVERY KEY STRUCK ON THE KEYBOARD AUDITED
BY THE ITANIUM TO START THE X86 EVENTUALLY.