Robert, was that a recent Petreley article?
My impression was/is that Windows is insecure and not scalable. When speaking of Java servers on Windows, does the scalability gap shrink between NT and *nix (throwing out the Linux threading problem)?
Here is a (most recent first) collection of email between myself and visto.com member services. In their literature they go on and on that they have the most scalable system, blah blah. It's all the weirder after reading that 90% of Exodus customers are running Solaris.
-JCJ
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Dear Member,
Our servers are based and ran at Exodus, but Exodus plays no part in the software that our
servers our based on. Given the Netcraft reply is correct that our servers run on
JavaWebServer/1.1 on NT4 or Windows 98. Be assured that data stored on these servers are
completely safe.
Please let us know if you would like any further information.
Regards,
Visto.com Member Support
support@corp.visto.com
------- Original Message --------
From: JCJ
To: member_support@visto.com
Subject: Re: Visto account inquiry [#2054010]
Date: 11/21/99 17:20:55
Thank you for this informative response. I am highly impressed
with exodus.com and the tremendous security in place. I have only
one remaining question before becoming a member and that is
regarding the Netcraft[1] platform result for visto.com.
[1]
netcraft.com
Your reply to me referenced exodus.com. I don't mean to be a
pain, but I'm missing the reference to Visto services being run
on Exodus servers. I'm just highly averse to putting my 'stuff'
on the Windows platform.
Hoping to hear back. Thanks in advance,
-JCJ
member_support@visto.com wrote:
>
> Dear Member,
>
> Your privacy is the number one priority with us. Visto follows and exceeds industry norms
for protecting your data on our server. Our servers are carefully protected from network
attacks by an industry-leading firewall with extremely restrictive rules and from physical
access by steel cages, 24x7 video cameras, and security guards in a dedicated facility. See:
exodus.com
>
> Please also view Visto's Privacy policy at: corp.visto.com.
>
> In addition, your files are stored in encrypted form on our servers, and you can use SSL
(Secure Socket Layer) with up to 128 bit encryption to transfer data into and out of our data
center. If you login using our challenge/response authentication applet (Secure Login), your
password will never cross the Net during authentication.
>
> Having said all that, no network is 100% safe from attack. We do not recommend that you
store proprietary, secret or classified information, or other highly sensitive information at
our site. Furthermore, the security of your information depends upon the password that you
choose for authentication. Choosing a trivial or easily-guessed password, or revealing your
password to others will, of course, compromise the security of your personal data.
>
> Additionally, please be assured that your personal information is not shared, sold, or lent
to any outside companies or ad agencies.
>
> If you have further questions or comments, please let us know.
>
> Regards,
>
> Visto.com Member Support
> support@corp.visto.com
>
> ------- Original Message --------
> From: JCJ
> To: support@corp.visto.com
> Subject: Visto account inquiry
> Date: 11/17/99 23:43:15
>
> Hi- I came upon the Visto site looking for POP mail
> access/Calendar site, and was very pleasantly surprised at
> finding Visto. I got *to Visto, btw through 'emailaddresses.com'.
>
> Reading into the introduction I loved the concept and responded
> favorably to 'fast' and 'secure' and 'scalable architecture'.
> Then I saw a reference to Microsoft. That scared me enough to
> look a deeper.
>
> Doing a Netcraft lookup, I see your site is running on Microsoft
> NT. This is not an architecture that I understand to be
> 'scalable' -or- 'secure'. Is this (Netcraft result) faulty? Does
> Visto run on an NT server. Also, does Visto share user info with
> Microsoft?
>
> Thanks-
>
> -JCJ |
