Android is getting more closed and iOS more open, I expect more people dissatisfied from both camps. We’ll have less choice overall as they gravitate towards a common middle ground.
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tambourine_man commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
A web server is really only going to be running 3 things: init, sshd, and the web server software. Even if we give init and sshd half of 128 MB, there's still 64 MB left for the web server.
Theoretically, sure. But standard Linux distros are much heavier these days. See my other reply on this thread.
Unless the author is using some very slim distribution or perhaps something more interesting, it’s a challenge to run an up to date HTTP server like Apache or nginx on 128MB alone, even though it shouldn’t.
tambourine_man commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
That's for some educational distro, which presumably is running some fancy desktop environment with fancy GUI programs. I don't think that is reflective of what a web server needs.
Bookworm minimum requirements are 256MB of RAM. Without desktop.
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/armel/ch03s04.en.ht...
128MB should be plenty. I used systems for years with much less. But in reality, Linux is much heavier these days.
tambourine_man commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
The software is easy. Apt install debian apache2 php certbot and you're pretty much set to deploy content to /var/www. I'm sure any BSD variant is also fine, or lots of other software distributions that don't require a graphical environment
On an old laptop running Windows XP (yes, with GUI, breaking my own rule there) I've also run a lot of services, iirc on 256MB RAM. XP needed about 70 I think, or 52 if I killed stuff like Explorer and unnecessary services, and the remainder was sufficient to run a uTorrent server, XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP) stack, Filezilla FTP server, OpenArena game server, LogMeIn for management, some network traffic monitoring tool, and probably more things I'm forgetting. This ran probably until like 2014 and I'm pretty sure the site has been on the HN homepage with a blog post about IPv6. The only thing that I wanted to run but couldn't was a Minecraft server that a friend had requested. You can do a heck of a lot with a hundred megabytes of free RAM but not run most Javaware :)
What I meant is that I’m not sure it will even boot. Bookworm minimum requirements are 256MB of RAM.
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/armel/ch03s04.en.ht...
128MB should be plenty. I used systems for years with much less. But in reality, Linux is much heavier these days.
tambourine_man commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
> I host this blog on a single core 128MB VPS
Where does one even find a VPS with such small memory today?
Or software to run on it. I'm intrigued about this claim as well.
tambourine_man commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
128MB is more than enough to run Debian and serve a static site. I had no issue with doing it a decade ago and it still works fine.
How much memory do you think it actually takes to accept a TLS connection and copy files from disk to a socket?
Modern Linux is much less frugal these days:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Bullseye/Req...
* Thin clients with only 256 MiB RAM and 400 MHz are possible, though more RAM and faster processors are recommended.
* For workstations, diskless workstations and standalone systems, 1500 MHz and 1024 MiB RAM are the absolute minimum requirements. For running modern webbrowsers and LibreOffice at least 2048 MiB RAM is recommended.
tambourine_man commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
It doesnt take much to host a static website. Its all the dynamic stuff/frameworks/db/etc that bogs everything down.
Still, 128MB is not enough to even run Debian let alone Apache/NGINX. I’m on my phone, but it doesn’t seem like the author is using Cloudflare or another CDN. I’d like to know what they are doing.
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Stuck at “Loading Claudia Demo…” in Safari
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