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The server is a Digital Personal Workstation 500AU with 256 MB memory, but running at 600Mhz. Other servers in the cluster - intended to take over during maintenance - are two Digital AlphaStation 200 computers. A DECStation 3000 is used for testing an Outlook-compatible application.
Being convinced of the superiority (in many aspects)
- To install Windows, it takes a Wizard
- To install Unix, it takes a Toolbox.
- To install OpenVMS, just >>>boot
And that's just what I did. Apart from the normal configuration - NO extra's, apart for what's needed to server the Web.
Current version is 8.2 on all machines.
I stopped using SWS (based on Apache) on August 21, 2006. It's basically a Unix application and doesn't perform as efficient as I wish. I have no big iron, just 256 Mb memory and a EV56 processor, and want to be able to run RdB as well, which requires a lot of resources as well. So efficiency is a major issue.
Now
I run Mark Daniel's 
webserver for production - but keep SWS at hand, just in case ;-)
For the hackers:
I intend to keep trespassers out: a 
router is fire walling the entire intranet.
It's NOT required for the server, that's safe enough. But I've got unsafe machines as well.