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Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by da_big_ghey » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 8:02 PM UTC

lillecarl wrote: post #18

Is this Casio colocated in a Hetzner datacenter?

maybe he has reverse proxy to house because no public ip with ports for hosting?

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by munk-a » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 8:02 PM UTC

laurent92 wrote: post #11

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #2

Better response times than other websites I browse… maybe they should upgrade to Casios.

I wonder whether it would be fast if it ran some ancient web technology, such as CGI, .Net frameworks for the web or Filemaker web.

I strongly suspect the webpage is entirely static and trying to run any sort of modern serverside framework would make it wail in protest - some simple dynamic elements using the native script might be doable though. It'd be neat to see if they could get a page counter up - just a dumb one that blindly increments the counter whenever any visit occurs.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by juanitolol » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 8:06 PM UTC

Firerouge wrote: post #9

valvar wrote: post #3

Hm, maybe posting this to HN wasn't the best idea...?

Maybe we'll get a follow-up on hosting a distributed cluster of casios to handle global load balancing

lol

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by vletal » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 8:06 PM UTC

According to timestamps of comments here I came approx 12 minutes late. RIP Casio

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by pletnes » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 8:06 PM UTC

Firerouge wrote: post #9

valvar wrote: post #3

Hm, maybe posting this to HN wasn't the best idea...?

Maybe we'll get a follow-up on hosting a distributed cluster of casios to handle global load balancing

c4s?

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by TravisHusky » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 8:06 PM UTC

lillecarl wrote: post #18

Is this Casio colocated in a Hetzner datacenter?

It is cheaper than AWS's Casio as a Service and for small sites you barely notice the difference.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by recursivedoubts » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 8:08 PM UTC

this is like firing the death star at a plucky little pod racer

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by munk-a » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 8:08 PM UTC

TravisHusky wrote: post #26

lillecarl wrote: post #18

Is this Casio colocated in a Hetzner datacenter?

It is cheaper than AWS's Casio as a Service and for small sites you barely notice the difference.

Then again AWS's Casio as a Service is available in a HIPAA compliant form.

Actually, HIPAA auditors would probably love a webserver running on a Casio since the hardware can be closely vetted and won't randomly change.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by alias_neo » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 8:09 PM UTC

vletal wrote: post #24

According to timestamps of comments here I came approx 12 minutes late. RIP Casio

Loaded for me just now.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by aaron-santos » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 8:11 PM UTC

TravisHusky wrote: post #26

lillecarl wrote: post #18

Is this Casio colocated in a Hetzner datacenter?

It is cheaper than AWS's Casio as a Service and for small sites you barely notice the difference.

If you use an an alt-CaaS you'll won't benefit from Infinidash integration, but then again you won't have the Infinidash configuration learning curve to deal with so it could still end up a net positive.