Re: [WEB400] What happened to rpgenerationx.com?

["Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden,

What would happen to a Wintel box if a .EXE file were loaded and run for
every person that connected to the site?  How long would take long before
the entire system was destablized?  They call that architecture CGI.
Although OS/400 CGI is perhaps an order of magnitude more efficient and
stable than its Wintel counterpart, it has its limits.

The obvious answer is to choose a more scalable architecture.  Although
Wintel and Lintel server farms (running ASPs and Servlets) do offer a
scalable alternative, they also come with an extra, unnecessary system
deployment and management cost.

With Relational-Web, RPG programs can generate and return fully formatted
HTML streams to an end-user, nearly as efficiently, as OS/400 can generate
and return an ODBC or JDBC formatted stream to a server farm (which then
must convert the data into HTML).  A scalable ILE architecture simply
requires less work to develop, deploy, and maintain.

Unfortunately, most people don't realize it.  It seems that most OS/400
shops do deploy Active Server Pages, Servlets, or equivalent Wintel and
Lintel solutions.  But there are native OS/400 alternatives which are just
as scalable.

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com



----- Original Message -----
From: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com>
To: <web400@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 9:39 AM
Subject: RE: [WEB400] What happened to rpgenerationx.com?


> OK, I know I'm going to regret this, but...
>
> 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?
>
> This isn't the first time (more like 10+) that people have complained
about
> the stability of the iSeries as a web server. Why do people keep using it?
> Aren't Bob, Bleddyn, David, Andrew, etc. supposed to be the experts at
this?
> If they have such a problem, what't up?
>
> I love the stability of the iSeries for database and green screen, but I
> must say that I think web serving is best left to web servers that have
> millions of installations.
>
> -Walden
>
> PS. Andrew, your just the lucky post I'm replying to, my comments apply to
> the entire thread.
>
>
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