VAX 4000 acting as Webserver ?

From: meltie <lists_at_microvax.org>
Date: Tue Feb 10 14:16:28 2004

On Tuesday 10 February 2004 18:50, Pierre Gebhardt wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> Just a question which I'm quite curious about:
> Is it possible to use my VAX 4000/200 as a web-server ?
> That way, I could provide my future site about my collection by using
> parts of it ;)
>
> This, of course, would mean the VAX running 24h a day.
> SCSI-disks would certainly be a better choice than my SDI-disks in order
> to avoid a crash...
>
> Is my VAX with its 5 VUP and 32MB RAM fast enough to run a webserver ?

I have the same configuration - apart from no local disk that NetBSD can
use so I put another disk in my home internet gateway box and booted
NetBSD/VAX from that over the network - used to serve http://
www.meltie.com just fine with thttpd - very small, easy to set up, high
performance webserver - http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/

alex/melt
Received on Tue Feb 10 2004 - 14:16:28 GMT

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