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Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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What is causing the 503 errors? Could the server be reconfigured with eg. a longer timeout to avoid them? (On that note, is there a limit to maximum timeout on the client-side?) Or is the actual hardware getting overwhelmed by the traffic?

The whole machine only has 4MB of RAM so presumably at some point requests start getting dropped. Then again, you can store a lot of requests in even 1MB.

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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I do have a fully solar powered VPN gateway/LTE router/web server/Wi-Fi relay - in my case, it’s out of necessity, as I live in a deep valley, and the only way I could get internet access here was to stick a mast on top of a hill with an IP67 box of goodies and a solar panel and battery, and an LPDA and yagi antenna for LTE and 802.11n respectively. The web server isn’t public, but fulfils a few important functions f…

Sounds like our local ham relay station. On the top of the mountain, solar and deep cycle batteries, and a radio relay. All housed in a cheap little shack. I was last up there around '98 to help top off the batteries with water, but it's still running strong today.

this sounds really cool

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Unfortunately it is not fully solar - it is as far as it can go, but then it is connected to a home router connected to mains etc.

If you want to nitpick go all the way. It's fully solar because a long time ago the sun got hot and the solar system got put together and that combination resulted in life and then later some sample of that life built a website with materials extracted from what the sun did to the original mess.

Nitpick++: A fair percentage of electricity in the world is powered by other stars, because Uranium didn’t come from our star.

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Reminds me of that blog/magazine who went fully solar and stopped thinking about uptime. What a time to be alive. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

Nice! Next step: an Arduino website run from ambient RF energy harvesting. :))

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Reminds me of that blog/magazine who went fully solar and stopped thinking about uptime. What a time to be alive. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

Next: a website that loads from punched cards! Where to stop?

Eniac or Babbage Difference Engine doing HTTP/2.0. I can't remember if both are Turing complete, so it's an exercise for the maker.

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Next: a website that loads from punched cards! Where to stop?

An actual Turing machine maybe? I’m someone built one by now.

Some people even built one in Lego http://rubens.ens-lyon.fr/

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Next: a website that loads from punched cards! Where to stop?

Surely a website that doesn’t exist but is left to the imagination of the reader Is the final stop

That's what I just experienced. They should probably upgrade to a zip drive.

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Sounds like our local ham relay station. On the top of the mountain, solar and deep cycle batteries, and a radio relay. All housed in a cheap little shack. I was last up there around '98 to help top off the batteries with water, but it's still running strong today.

this sounds really cool

Some more info:

https://gallatinhamradio.com/repeaters/BozemanAreaRepeaters.... Some of those repeaters will let you patch into the phone system. It's slick stuff, but I haven't worked with it for a few decades now.

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