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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:12:17 -0400 To: [email protected] Subject: Dynamic web hosting and OpenBSD From: [email protected]

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.

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?

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.

Thanks, bsdmaster