RE: What happened to rpgenerationx.com?

At 11:39 30.07.2002 -0400, you wrote:
>OK, I know I'm going to regret this, but...

Seems to be like a shot in a bee hive... ;-)

>Given this thread (and others like it on Midrange and Ignite) can someone
>please explain to me again why having one iSeries box (you know the one that
>never crashes) as my web server is better than a farm of cheap Linux or
>Windows Intel boxes serving your web?

Because i do think that an iSeries as a web server is stable.

Because i can easily access my data and generate dynamic pages in good
performance. For static pages, an iSeries isn't necessary. But when you
have business data on it that you want to somehow access via web, the
iSeries as web server is the first choice.

>This isn't the first time (more like 10+) that people have complained about
>the stability of the iSeries as a web server.

New things = errors = PTF's. With web serving, it is very important to be
up to date with PTF's, because the new released things seem to be way more
buggy than the other parts of the licensed programs.

>  Why do people keep using it?

Because of the above.

>Aren't Bob, Bleddyn, David, Andrew, etc. supposed to be the experts at this?
>If they have such a problem, what't up?

They are talking and trying to use the newest things available. They are
having a lot of troubles with it but that makes life easier for those who
follow them and apply the PTFs that arise due to their and others effort.
(Thanks!)

>I love the stability of the iSeries for database and green screen,

And being at V4R5, i love the stability of our web server!

>but I must say that I think web serving is best left to web servers that have
>millions of installations.

That would be a perfect fit for iSeries running HTTP Server powered by Apache.


best regards /  Mit freundlichen Grüssen

Anton Gombkötö
Avenum Technologie GmbH

http://www.avenum.com