15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users - how Webminal refuses to die
The server webminal.org runs on a single CentOS Linux box with 8GB RAM. That’s it. No Kubernetes, no microservices, no auto-scaling. One server since 2011. It has survived: A datacenter fire in 2021 (we lost 150k user accounts) Multiple power outages in the Netherlands That one time in 2017 when a Spanish tech blog sent 10,000 users in one day My friend Freston’s insistence that Slackware is the only real distro The idea The idea was simple. I was sitting at my Windows machine at work, wantin...
15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users - how Webminal refuses to die
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15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users - how Webminal refuses to die
The server webminal.org runs on a single CentOS Linux box with 8GB RAM. That’s it. No Kubernetes, no microservices, no auto-scaling. One server since 2011. It has survived: A datacenter fire in 2021 (we lost 150k user accounts) Multiple power outages in the Netherlands That one time in 2017 when a Spanish tech blog sent 10,000 users in one day My friend Freston’s insistence that Slackware is the only real distro The idea The idea was simple. I was sitting at my Windows machine at work, wantin...
🎉 Behold, the
#miracle of Webminal! A single server with the horsepower of a
#potato and RAM you'd find in a decade-old laptop, yet somehow it refuses to die—much like your uncle's Windows XP machine. 🤷♂️ Who needs modern
#tech when you can survive on sheer stubbornness and the occasional data loss? 🚀
https://community.webminal.org/t/15-years-one-server-8gb-ram-and-500k-users-how-webminal-refuses-to-die/8803 #Webminal #Power #Stubborn #DataLoss #HackerNews #ngated15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users - how Webminal refuses to die
The server webminal.org runs on a single CentOS Linux box with 8GB RAM. That’s it. No Kubernetes, no microservices, no auto-scaling. One server since 2011. It has survived: A datacenter fire in 2021 (we lost 150k user accounts) Multiple power outages in the Netherlands That one time in 2017 when a Spanish tech blog sent 10,000 users in one day My friend Freston’s insistence that Slackware is the only real distro The idea The idea was simple. I was sitting at my Windows machine at work, wantin...
15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users - how Webminal refuses to die
The server webminal.org runs on a single CentOS Linux box with 8GB RAM. That’s it. No Kubernetes, no microservices, no auto-scaling. One server since 2011. It has survived: A datacenter fire in 2021 (we lost 150k user accounts) Multiple power outages in the Netherlands That one time in 2017 when a Spanish tech blog sent 10,000 users in one day My friend Freston’s insistence that Slackware is the only real distro The idea The idea was simple. I was sitting at my Windows machine at work, wantin...
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