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I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by anaganisk »

murukesh_s wrote: post #36
anaganisk wrote: post #33

Imagine a floppy disk based old server surviving “Hug of deaths” while the latest react based static website hosted on Kubernetes for infinite scalability on baremetal dies in like 5 sec.

The blame would be on baremetal server. They would move to AWS with multi region EKS clusters and RDS with cross-region disaster recovery. And a multi-cloud strategy is also in place..

And edge caching on cloudflare or cloudfront.

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by Maursault »

muhammadusman wrote: post #14
game-of-throws wrote: post #6

You're playing with fire using RAID0. If I had data on 30 floppy drives, I'd want at least 20 of them to be parity drives.

that's the point, RAID0 is for speed only

> RAID0 is for speed only

In this case, the theoretical maximum bandwidth is 24MBit/s.

The problem is the old, slow usb bottleneck. I'm not sure how much faster, probably hundreds of bps rather than under 24, but a faster RAID0 rig would be to instead have 30x Mac G4 Digital Audios connected via gigabit switch, and share then RAID0 the internal floppies. It would also have whatever advantage running an XGrid PPC cluster on Tiger might provide. These boxes also ran PPC Ubuntu; no doubt Linux would eek out a dozen or so more bps, plus beowulf.

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by bee_rider »

_joel wrote: post #24
rootsudo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would it be more fun to run a live cd webserver only? piece together an old computer, with an old live linux installation, and either run it unupdated or patched and carrying updates it can only apply w/o reboot?

A Knoppix 4 CTF doesn't sound too challenging, tbf mate edit: thinking about it, there's some good educational value, but maybe via vm than plopped on the interwebs :D

Do people do cyberpunk or sci-fi LARPs? An extravagantly unpatched server running on a raspberry pi or something like that would be a kind of fun prop.

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by turdnagel »

anaganisk wrote: post #42
murukesh_s wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The blame would be on baremetal server. They would move to AWS with multi region EKS clusters and RDS with cross-region disaster recovery. And a multi-cloud strategy is also in place..

And edge caching on cloudflare or cloudfront.

Well, edge caching would almost certainly be enough with a decently high TTL. You don't need all that other junk :)

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by asveikau »

jewel wrote: post #9
reustle wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we hit a lot of random sub folder URLs (that should all 404), would that trigger the webserver to check the drive to see if the file exists and skip the cache?

No. The cache is at the block layer, not the file/directory layer. So the filesystem will look up the directory structure, which will be cached.

On top of the block layer cache there's also the namei cache for filename to inode lookups, I'm not sure if that covers a file not found case or just a success path, but it may apply here too.
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