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Can my SPARC server host a website?
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#32> Memory: 56MiB / 1024MiB This is the beefiest SPARC I have ever seen. Very cool this is running. Getting this set up is no easy feat if you haven't tried before. Props to OP
> This is the beefiest SPARC I have ever seen
My sarcasm detector came defective from the factory, and I've always struggled with getting it to work effectively.
So, if you aren't being sarcastic: 20 years ago, place I worked had a Sun Fire 15K. They supported max 576GB of RAM. Don't remember how much ours had, it probably wasn't a maxxed out config, but I'm sure it was a lot more than 1GB. The machine cost over $1 million dollars.
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#33Doesn't Solaris still live on as the illumos distributions? Tribblix still has SPARC64 builds.
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#34I’m starting to get tired of these old hardware or minimally powered hardware hosting website posts. It’s not that novel anymore.
I do not mind retro computing stuff. The most interesting part was installing up-to-date OpenBSD. But of course it can serve a static website.
Would have loved to see how it holds up with some load via FastCGI and CGI (via slowcgi(8)), since httpd(8) can be used with both of them.
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#35Slightly off topic, but: is it just me or does it become uninteresting to read things like this when the whole process is basically “so then I asked Claude this, and then I asked it this, and then this…”
I guess it takes away the intrigue of the project because anyone could do this (ask ai), and the only thing human left about it is the creativity of the idea itself. There’s not much merit to the effort.
Edit: nothing against the author or anything, it’s fun to do projects like this.
But I always kinda likened AI output to your kids’ artwork - to you it’s the best. To someone else, it doesn’t have as much impact.
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#36Slightly off topic, but: is it just me or does it become uninteresting to read things like this when the whole process is basically “so then I asked Claude this, and then I asked it this, and then this…” I guess it takes away the intrigue of the project because anyone could do this (ask ai), and the only thing human left about it is the creativity of the idea itself. There’s not much merit to the effort. Edit: nothin…
its incredibly uninteresting and marks the perfect point to close the tab and go back to something enriching
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#37Cloudflare Tunnels are awesome, dude. My blog is hosted on one and it's great how much you can configure on top of Cloudflare. I'm like the biggest enthusiast based on their feature set and how much they make free. Easy to convert me when I get to try even putting personal websites on their authentication flow.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Were those websites supporting SSL connections, much less TLS 1.2? That would be my question on hardware that old. (In this case, it looks like they offload TLS to Cloudflare, so the machine itself isn't doing any encryption/decryption.)
He offloads TLS to the Proxmox server within their home network. TLS is used between that server and Cloudflare to keep everything safe during transport.
Recent OpenBSD should be able to do modern TLS, and probably ACME, which would have been more interesting.
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#39That loaded faster than most pages I visit.
Also, excellent use of the marquee tag.
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#40> Network isolation: The Cloudflare tunnel creates an outbound-only connection, so no inbound ports are exposed on my home network
While inbound ports are not exposed you're still responding to incoming traffic so theoretically if someone can find a zero day in httpd nothing is anymore "network isolated" then if you had port 80 exposed to the world.