2010-10-31 17:12 -0400, bsdmaster@hushmail.com:
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> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> I am currently starting my very own hosting business,
> as I'm horribly tired of all the incompetence in the
> field. Obviously I take security seriously, and therefore
> will be using OpenBSD exclusively.

Well, FreeBSD has jails and MAC, so I'd reconsider your platform choice
if you say that security is the top priority. China adopted FreeBSD
presumably because of its security benefits. Wether the simplicity
weighs against this or not, is up to the site's peculiarities. In my
case, I choose OpenBSD because of its straightfowardness.

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> One thing is bothering me though. I've searched the web
> and the archives trying to clarify one single point, but
> to no avail. I hope you friendly folks would help me.
> 
> I want to host my customers websites, but I'm unclear
> how OpenBSD web scripting languages support works. I know
> for a fact that the base system includes perl, so hosting
> perl websites should work without issues. That is good because
> many of my customers will be using domains such as domain.pl
> I also see Mono is part of the ports, so domain.net should
> also work without issue.
> 
> The one thing I'm unclear about is example.com domains.
> How can I get OpenBSD to run .com files? I found that these
> are actualy very old DOS binaries. How do other OpenBSD folks
> manage them? Is it with Wine? Qemu running a stripped down XP?
> 
> Of course I could write a very good .COM wrapper for ELF I guess,
> but I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so if a solution already
> exists, I better use it.
> 
> So, what is this solution? Or maybe OpenBSD is not compatible yet
> with .COM web applications?

The last string is the tld (top-level domain) and has nothing to do with
the interpeter used by your site's scripts; e.g., ".pl" is supposed to
represent domains hosted for/from Poland, whereas ".com" domains are
usually purchased by _com_panies.

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> PS: by the way, I am ready to offer the OpenBSD project a very good
> discount, so maybe it's a good idea to move all the hosting of the
> project to my new company once I've ironed out the few remaining 
> details.
> Service will be very good, high bandwidth and very modern, being 
> IPv6 only
> (it's the new version of DHCP and DNS with more addresses for your 
> machines),
> so very future-proof. Just contact me if you need more information.

Whatever works out better for you I guess. It's a great
technology, in my opinion, specially when you take in account that it's
33% faster than IPv4.

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> Thanks,
> bsdmaster