Show HN: CloudTabs Web Browser – a streaming web browser on every website

Very cool. But what for?

After "Browser Loaded", how long must I wait for something else to happen? (iOS 17.4, btw)

Oh! It should work. What doesn’t work? I’m testing it on iOS all the time.

Which version are you?

To make sure users have no agency over your site. The screen is just a bunch of pixels being streamed at you, no extensions, no view source, no agency. The purpose is to use web tech, without having to actually expose your site to the internet for real.

Ok a new server in US region is up.

Unfortunately the disk filled up on the Europe server and Canadian server. I had to nuke all the Ephemeral sessions. Capability should be back now. OS told me disk was 100.0% used when I logged in.

It was all tempfs mounted for each user. I never realized its importance. Will need bigger disks.

I'll add some timed updates to keep things organized below this point:

17:57:00 Z

Will add 2 new 32 core servers in Europe, and Asia, as both those regions are seeing lots of demand. Asia is at 100% right now.

18:03:00 Z

Just started creation of the Japan server. Once I get the install script started, I'll move to create the Europe one.

18:18:00 Z

Okay, Japan server should be online. Sorry about everybody in SEA that I just nuked your sessions, that must have sucked. The server was hard to manage at 100% utilization. Moving to create a new Europe server now.

18:26:00 Z

Okay Europe server is provisioned and setup is starting now. It should be live in about 10 minutes.

18:32:00 Z

London server is live. Stats update: since posting to HN 2 hours ago we had about 2000 sessions across (initially) 4 16core 32GB 128disk servers. So far have had to add 3 more 32/64/1TB servers, with disk being the unexpected cost to this type of load. BTW if anyone is reading this how was your experience? Was it slow/fast? Responsive? What region were you in?

18:42:00 Z

I'm monitoring the 7 servers now.

18:48:00 Z

Right now server selection is based on RTT/ping from client. I'm thinking it might be good to have ping endpoint include the current load. But I don't want to bork it.

19:31:00 Z

Okay, load average has been added to the ping check for fastest server. We now pick between the fastest two pings based on which has the lowest load. Should work well.