I am now taking bets on how long it will last. 'This site is hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4B in the author's living room (behind the couch)'
Longer than the porn site it's talking about at least
A Gov.uk site dedicated to porn?
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Re: A Gov.uk site dedicated to porn?
#12> This site is hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4B in the author's living room (behind the couch). Holding up quite well despite HN frontpage. I love what a bit of caching can do. EDIT: appears I jinxed it. I get the allure of hosting something in your home, but these days when you can get a decent VPS for $10/yr it doesn’t really make sense.
Given it's timing out for me, I'm not sure I'd agree it's holding up quite well :P
Re: A Gov.uk site dedicated to porn?
#13The site in question is charts.dft.gov.uk (VERY NSFW). It resolves to the CNAME charts.dft.gov.uk.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com, which is quite clearly hosting a porn site of some kind.
I suppose there's a few possible explanations here: (1) the original site was hosted on S3, and at some point the bucket was dropped and someone else picked it up, (2) it was originally hosted on S3 and the bucket got hacked, (3) someone with access to the DNS has decided to go rogue and point it at a somewhat-legit-looking but fake domain. If there are historical DNS records floating around it might help to narrow down what happened here.
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#14> This site is hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4B in the author's living room (behind the couch). Holding up quite well despite HN frontpage. I love what a bit of caching can do. EDIT: appears I jinxed it. I get the allure of hosting something in your home, but these days when you can get a decent VPS for $10/yr it doesn’t really make sense.
Unfortunately this looks like a mistake for this context given it isn’t loading now.
Otherwise, for a well-known average traffic load suitable to a Pi, a Pi is a great idea.
Re: A Gov.uk site dedicated to porn?
#15> This site is hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4B in the author's living room (behind the couch). Holding up quite well despite HN frontpage. I love what a bit of caching can do. EDIT: appears I jinxed it. I get the allure of hosting something in your home, but these days when you can get a decent VPS for $10/yr it doesn’t really make sense.
HN traffic isn't that large, maybe a few requests per second.
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#16> This site is hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4B in the author's living room (behind the couch). Holding up quite well despite HN frontpage. I love what a bit of caching can do. EDIT: appears I jinxed it. I get the allure of hosting something in your home, but these days when you can get a decent VPS for $10/yr it doesn’t really make sense.
HN traffic isn't that large, maybe a few requests per second.
You're a decade behind the times. HN can be formidable in the amount of traffic it generates, it all depends on the content and the time of day though.
Re: A Gov.uk site dedicated to porn?
#17The site in question is charts.dft.gov.uk (VERY NSFW). It resolves to the CNAME charts.dft.gov.uk.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com, which is quite clearly hosting a porn site of some kind. I suppose there's a few possible explanations here: (1) the original site was hosted on S3, and at some point the bucket was dropped and someone else picked it up, (2) it was originally hosted on S3 and the bucket got hacked, (3)…
I don't think it was #3: Amazon owns and resolves it for amazonaws.com. If you could hack that, you could do much more serious damage. I'm assuming it's #1. Bucket names are global.
Re: A Gov.uk site dedicated to porn?
#18> Visit [redacted], and you’ll be redirected to a subdomain for EU exit hauliers - except the site isn’t there. Instead it’s a WordPress login page. There’s no username field and we feel confident that a brute force attack would be super effective! > Elsewhere we have the Department for Transport careers page, which sort of does what it says. Clicking on the ‘see all vacancies’ button will redirect you to the civil s…
In fact, it's a t.co link that redirects to a bit.ly link that redirects to the actual site!
Re: A Gov.uk site dedicated to porn?
#19It seems to have been taken offline now. Here's the archive[1] link for uh.. research. Obviously, NSFW.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20211125154944/http://charts.dft...