User mode linux is so cool.
15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
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Re: 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
#12User mode linux is so cool.
Yes, User mode linux pretty cool project. If I'm not wrong, UML is kind of predecessor to gvisor or firecracker from a different era.
Re: 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
#13Well that server is worth 1M due to the 8GB RAM now!
I wonder how much money went into the hosting over the years.
A year ago I bought a Intel N100 Mini PC with 16 GB DDR5 RAM and a 512 GB SSD for $170.
Maybe it could have hosted the site too. It's certainly a lot faster than Azure VMs with 4 "vCPUs".
Re: 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
#14That's wonderful and I know why it's an Indian founder. Was so hard to get a remote shell back then. Indian debit cards didn't work online reliably and so on. So what's the hardware underneath? Cloud server or on-prem?
These days the world is amazing. Oracle Cloud gives you a ton for free. But perhaps there's some niche where this is useful. I have to say that this shared screen comms system is outrageously crazy, hahaha.
Re: 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
#15blegh, the content is interesting but i've grown numb towards AI speak. It's so generic that I lose interest halfway through.
Yeah, the content itself is amazing but the AI writing detracts from that. I'd much rather read broken English than GPT output.
That being said I really enjoyed reading this, and I'm looking forward to trying it out.
Re: 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
#16This is so fascinating, I've never heard of UML!
How many users can this support simultaneously? It says 256MB RAM per user, 8GB total on server? But it's probably more than 32 simultaneous users?
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#17That's wonderful and I know why it's an Indian founder. Was so hard to get a remote shell back then. Indian debit cards didn't work online reliably and so on. So what's the hardware underneath? Cloud server or on-prem? These days the world is amazing. Oracle Cloud gives you a ton for free. But perhaps there's some niche where this is useful. I have to say that this shared screen comms system is outrageously crazy, ha…
It began as on-prem, Freston hosted in his house (we shared server cost, some people called it crazy, because I sent money to someone I met in Linuxforums.org and never seen this person, even via internet, I trusted him because I know him for few years on that forum) After 3 years or so we moved on to cloud servers. Mostly switching from one infra and another if we get some credits :D Couple of years we had Linode sponsoring those nodes until its acquisition.
>shared screen comms system is outrageously crazy,
Thats Freston idea. I remember our typically chat begins with something like "Hey Laks, Can you see me typing!" ;)
Re: 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
#18This is so fascinating, I've never heard of UML! How many users can this support simultaneously? It says 256MB RAM per user, 8GB total on server? But it's probably more than 32 simultaneous users?
In past I have seen around 10 process, but I think with current setup, it could support around upto 20 UML. Remember this runs on the same server where others login and get their normal bash account too. So not a dedicated UML server.
Re: 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
#19UML is a smart call, and reminds me when I built an inventory and shift scheduling system on wordpress in 2017.
somtimes the "wrong" / "old" tool for some job is exactly right for you if you really understand it. UML is old but fits here.
15 years is long enough to call memory about a lot of things.
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#20All that on a single Github Sponsor[0].