On Wed, 23 May 2001, Joseph E. Mainusch wrote:
> Why not simply burn your website to a CD, and serve it from the CD
> drive? It could be served through a cache, so performance is up to par.
This is getting silly. Assuming your website does anything more than static
content, you are going to need writable storage areas in the system (be they
disk or RAM) for databases, scratch memory, whatever. If you want anything
like acceptable performance, you need memory for cache. And if you can write
to it, it can be written to by an attacker who has broken into your system.
It would be possible to build a very secure, dedicated, custom-hardware
server appliance that would serve static content off of read-only media.
Such a server would be very limited, and performance would be horrible. And
static content is boring, anyway.
The proper solution, of course, is to fix the holes in your web server.
:-)
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