Now imagine a beowolf cluster of these.
Can my SPARC server host a website?
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#12I’m starting to get tired of these old hardware or minimally powered hardware hosting website posts. It’s not that novel anymore.
The question as posed in the title is novel because it violates Betteridge's law of headlines:
> "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
I'd rather see stuff like this than an LLM spicy take on the front page. JMO, YMMV.
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#13I’m starting to get tired of these old hardware or minimally powered hardware hosting website posts. It’s not that novel anymore.
Why would anyone not think a Sparc server could host a web site?
An old IBM PC or even a Commodore 64 can host a web site. I think there’s a few online. I’ve seen them before.
I’ve seen a lot of younger “cloud native” age developers who have these insane distorted ideas about how much power is needed to do simple things. You’d be shocked at how much traffic a modern mid range laptop can handle with efficient software. The Ethernet card you can plug into it would probably be the bottleneck, since I’m not sure if they make USB-C cards faster than 5gbps.
A mid range laptop will also handle hundreds of gigs in a SQL database just fine.
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#14This is what websites ran on back in 2001! It doesn't seem like much of a stretch to host a website on one, especially one that resembles a 2001-era site.
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#15I do enjoy this, but the title is such clickbait. I was running websites on a sparc 2 back in 1995.
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#16I’m starting to get tired of these old hardware or minimally powered hardware hosting website posts. It’s not that novel anymore.
Why would anyone not think a Sparc server could host a web site? An old IBM PC or even a Commodore 64 can host a web site. I think there’s a few online. I’ve seen them before. I’ve seen a lot of younger “cloud native” age developers who have these insane distorted ideas about how much power is needed to do simple things. You’d be shocked at how much traffic a modern mid range laptop can handle with efficient software…
If the mid range laptop happens to have a Thunderbolt/USB4 port there are a number of Thunderbolt adapters built around Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx SFP28 NICs.
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#1727 years ago my job was hosting hundreds of websites (CBS News, among them) on Sun hardware just like that. It baffles me that anyone would consider this a question at all.
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#18it can but if it gets too much traffic it might sparc
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#19Yes.
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#2027 years ago my job was hosting hundreds of websites (CBS News, among them) on Sun hardware just like that. It baffles me that anyone would consider this a question at all.
Agreed. The Netscape IPO was over 30 years ago. What do people think the web was running on back then?
And why do you think that machine is called a Netra?