Re: iSeries vs IIS web site

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Den 12/04/11 16.36, Rich Dotson skrev:
> > Just one word of caution. Do not try and turn a programmer into a marketing website designer.
> Prior to taking this position I was a consultant for 18 years on the IBM midrange with the last 5+ years also doing web development using Microsoft products (.aspx, c#, vb.net, etc..).  I've created a few prototype web pages for marketing to review and they were thrilled with the prototype and ideas I presented.     My problem is that the network guy went over my head to the President and said that doing it this way was not secure as the IIS server and can be easily hacked if we went that direction.   That is when I started doing my research on running a web site on the iSeries.
IBM i is in the standard configuration rather trusting its users and 
apparently easy to hack.  Hence you need to harden it or hide it very 
well behind a firewall before allowing general Internet access.

In this regard IIS equipped Windows machines are - in my opinion - 
better suited than IBM i.   A reasonable scenario in my mind would be 
having the main site on the IIS (or a Linux apache box) and let IIS be 
the only one allowed to hit the web server on the IBM i when generating 
HTML output from programs.