This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem

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Post by dtx1 » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 7:53 AM UTC

This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem
nns.ee

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Post by em3rgent0rdr » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 8:31 AM UTC

impressive latency.

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Post by roflchoppa » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 8:34 AM UTC

Not gonna lie that’s pretty cool.

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Post by hannofcart » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 8:36 AM UTC

It's amazing that posting this on HN has not melted it down. Are you using an edge CDN like Cloudflare to provide caching?

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Post by dtx1 » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 8:37 AM UTC

hannofcart wrote: post #4

It's amazing that posting this on HN has not melted it down. Are you using an edge CDN like Cloudflare to provide caching?

Sry, not my blog just thought it's interesting

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Post by ev1 » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 8:44 AM UTC

hannofcart wrote: post #4

It's amazing that posting this on HN has not melted it down. Are you using an edge CDN like Cloudflare to provide caching?

It's a static file being served, 32MB RAM nginx instance can handle well past HN traffic for something like that

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Post by dtx1 » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 8:45 AM UTC

ev1 wrote: post #6

hannofcart wrote: post #4

It's amazing that posting this on HN has not melted it down. Are you using an edge CDN like Cloudflare to provide caching?

It's a static file being served, 32MB RAM nginx instance can handle well past HN traffic for something like that

It uses darkhttpd https://unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/

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Post by ce4 » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 8:45 AM UTC

hannofcart wrote: post #4

It's amazing that posting this on HN has not melted it down. Are you using an edge CDN like Cloudflare to provide caching?

According to a Maxmind Geoip lookup, both ip4/ip6 belong to Telia Eesti ISP, so probably no CDN caching.

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Post by captainmuon » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 8:47 AM UTC

The Quectel modems are fun parts. We are using one in a project as a kind of theft protection. I couldn't belive at first "this is a whole computer with Linux on it".

I really wonder why modem manufacturers feel the need to encapsulate everything so much. Is it for regulatory reasons, to protect their secret sauce, or for our convenience? On the one hand it makes simple things really easy with some AT commands, on the other hand it makes debugging quite frustrating because it is a black box.

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Post by junon » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 8:48 AM UTC

The security section at the bottom is important. This screams malware vector.