It takes a lot of guts to run something like this for years on end, kudos to you for setting this up and running it for all these years. I am wondering if you'd ever come across pubnixes or tilde servers when you first started up webminal?
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
#52This is the post that should be required reading before anyone spins up a Kubernetes cluster for their side project.
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#54To be fair. 8GB of ram is huge. I don't know, maybe I'm stuck in the early 00s but even 2 GB of ram still seems extravagant; I remember when that was an exotic amount of RAM for dedicated gamers to play extremely high fidelity games, so for a mere web server 8 GB of ram almost seems like absurd overkill. I still feel a tinge of shame whenever I see any software of my own using more than a few hundred megabytes. What…
64K was huge when the Commodore 64 came along.
I barely used or remember the ZX-81 my folks had with it's amazing 1KB of memory. It had a 16K expansion module you could plug into the back, which apparently made a big difference, but also didn't have the greatest connection. You could easily dislodge it typing on the keyboard. I do remember my father coming up with various ways to try to secure it.
The ZX Spectrum that followed, with its huge 48K of RAM was night and day. The programs were so much more complicated.
Even echo on linux these days takes 38K of disk space and a baseline of 13K of memory to execute, before whatever is required to hold the message you're repeating.
Re: 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
64K was huge when the Commodore 64 came along.
I barely used or remember the ZX-81 my folks had with it's amazing 1KB of memory. It had a 16K expansion module you could plug into the back, which apparently made a big difference, but also didn't have the greatest connection. You could easily dislodge it typing on the keyboard. I do remember my father coming up with various ways to try to secure it. The ZX Spectrum that followed, with its huge 48K of RAM was night…
Fixing the 16K RAM pack makes an apperance in the Micro Men film:
https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM?t=1694
RAM was so tight on those 8-bit machines that many games used tricks like hiding things inside the viewable area of the screen to eck out just a little bit more.
Re: 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
#56> User Mode Linux Oh man, what a blast from the past. I have fond memories of learning linux networking with netkit (based on UML). UML was a really really cool piece of technology. If anybody is wondering, User Mode Linux lets you boot a Linux kernel as a normal linux process, and then run an userspace, still in a linux process. This is from 2001. Super cool.
I was trying to remember what this was called the other day, for some reason.
It turns out that if you run a uml kernel and point its root at the root of the disk the host Linux is running on, there's a hell of a turf war between the two and no-one wins.
Re: 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
#57I didn't know about Webminal until today. Going to try it with some college students this afternoon!
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#58Re: 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
#59All that on a single Github Sponsor[0]. [0] https://github.com/sponsors/Lakshmipathi
Actually I opened up GitHub Sponsor just few weeks ago. Few tims i received enquiry from users (professors) who wanted to contribute back.only now i have proper channel to redirect such requests.
Re: 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
#60I didn't know about Webminal until today. Going to try it with some college students this afternoon!
Sure. We had quite a lot of universities and schools used this platform for their classes. I'll be away from system for next 48hrs though.Drop us a mail,will respond.