[thelist] Hardening a webserver

[Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com)]

	How much does it depend on obscurity, i.e. the fact that
nobody's supposed to know what to do with VMS (which oddly enough, I
do)?

	I'm surprised nobody's mentioned FreeBSD; is that not a
contender these days?

Out of touch,

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org On Behalf Of Ken Robinson

At 07:55 PM 1/14/2005, Scott Wolpow wrote:
>I thought it was a given being that I want security. I plan to use 
>Linux,
>but can use anything that will work.
>Scott Wolpow

You say you want security? Talk to HP about using OpenVMS 
<http://www.hp.com/go/openvms>.

You can run HP's Secure Web Server, based on Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl.
If a 
hacker gets in, it's unlikely they would know what to do since VMS would
be 
completely foreign to them. Do you want high availability as well as
very 
good security. VMS has had clustering since 1984. VMS is very secure
right 
out of the box.

Ken Robinson