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Wednesday, 30 May 2007
A faster, better server
OK, I'll admit it. For purely sentimental reasons, I wanted to keep all of this stuff running on Wyvax. I've had this workstation since 1991. I like it. So, I upgraded to VMS 7.3. I installed the latest good version of Perl for Vax (5.6.1). I tried to get the "optimized" Perl engine for the OSU web server to work too.
The performance of the blog script was not impressive. Wyvax was a good machine in its day. But, its day has passed.
I installed the OSU web server (V3.10A) on Ceres, an AlphaServer DS20, and I got the latest supported PCSI install kit for Perl from HP. Then, I copied the Blosxom script over there too. It runs like gangbusters. You probably noticed how quickly the blog came up. And, that annoying Content-type: HASH line is no longer there either when viewed in MSIE.
So, I reconfigured the web server on Wyvax to redirect to Ceres. For you, my faithful web site reader, the change will be transparent. You'll ask Wyvax for my web pages, and he'll tell your browser to go ask Ceres instead. Ceres will send you all that you have requested, and it will do it a whole lot faster than Wyvax ever could.
Wyvax will still live on, mostly as an X terminal for me.
Posted at 15:53 by Chris Wysocki
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