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> I'm afraid to link it here because the traffic might kill my puny box. So what if it does? Presumably it isn't a "critical" host so the worst that could hap
by jlgaddis 8y ago
> I'm afraid to link it here because the traffic might kill my puny box.
So what if it does?
Presumably it isn't a "critical" host so the worst that could happen is, what, no one can read what your blog posts for a little while? Eventually, the traffic will go away and things will go back to normal, yeah?
I assume that (part of) the reason for writing your blog post was so that others could read it. Yet, by not posting the link, you are ensuring that we don't -- even though pretty much all of us in this comment thread are the target audience.
Alternatively, as someone else mentioned, there are things like the Internet Archive.
(FWIW, several years ago, a page on my blog was linked by The Atlantic one morning and shortly thereafter it also hit the front page of (IIRC) both Reddit and HN. The only way I figured out that "something was up" was due to the huge number of "new follower" notifications I was getting from Twitter as I was driving to work. At the time, I was running WordPress on a little VPS with 1 CPU core and 768 MB of RAM and it handled the ~115,000 page views just fine that day -- although I did have caching and such in place. YMMV.)
- alias_neo 8y agoYou make many valid points there. Here's the link, let's see what happens: Caveat lector: This is a "beginner" guide targeted at Raspberry Pi users, ignore the Pi related parts. I intend to publish a second part about using keys instead of passwords. https://2byt.es/post/totp/ https://2byt.es/post/totp/ The blog content is open source on GitHub so feel free to raise issues if necessary.
- e12e 8y agoNice walk-through. Re:bandwidth worries, for this crowd, you probably just link to: https://github.com/2bytes/website/blob/master/content/post/totp.md https://github.com/2bytes/website/blob/master/content/post/t... I doubt hn will take down github...
- alias_neo 8y agoI had considered that, but as someone else else pointed out, what have I got to lose if it's taken down? At least with links to my blog I can use the access logs for an idea of which articles people find interesting (I don't do other metrics/analytics due to my philosophy). At the moment I'm trying to build a new box to host this on but it seems Caddy has broken source builds (again) and I need plugins for my Git hooks and Hugo build. Searching around for an alternative. Edit: and thanks for the compliment.
- mholt 8y agoCaddy's source builds are still working; just took a couple hours for me to figure out and update the instructions.