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I laughed at the VPS hosting flexing... pretending it's a grassroot movement running on limited resources. You're limited alright, in other ways. Run it from y

by keyle 4y ago

I laughed at the VPS hosting flexing... pretending it's a grassroot movement running on limited resources. You're limited alright, in other ways. Run it from your basement on a pentium and I'll be impressed ;) Sorry I'm too old for this.

iLoveOncall 4y ago
Right, with those specs you could run any CMS-based website with images and everything and serve hundreds of users a day without any issue.
Aeolun 4y ago
We can run the same on 32MB though. It’s just that you can’t get any VPS’es in that size any more.
- dorfsmay 4y ago
  buyvm.com rents 256MB VMs. vultr.com still has some 500MB VMs in some of their DCs. You could also run raspberry pi, or other small SBC form your home.
  - billyhoffman 4y ago
    Raspberry Pis, old thinkpads, and the like are how most people host their Gemini capsules
    - dorfsmay 4y ago
      This? https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ Interesting, I did not know about it. Not related to the original link, right?
      - ecliptik 4y ago
        RTC is semi-related to gemini://, they're both loosely affiliated with The Circumlunar Universe [1]. 1. https://phroxy.net/gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/1/universe https://phroxy.net/gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/1/...
    - blippage 4y ago
      Indeed. I run my gemini capsule off of a Raspberry Pi 3 using FreeBSD. The one thing about Pi's is that they sip energy. I was using about 2.4W, so I estimated running costs at less than £7pa. I've no doubt that one could serve gopher pages using a microcontroller like the ESP-32. Gemini would be more difficult, due to encryption requirements. Readers may also be interested to learn of the Spartan protocol, which is basically Gemini without the encryption and a more flexibly upload option. Spartan hasn't really caught on yet, though. I've also heard of a protocol called Mercury, which I assume is similar to Gemini, but even simpler. I've not read up about it, though.
dorfsmay 4y ago
Yeah, this got me: > RESOURCE MINIMALISM. rawtext.club runs on a tiny cloud-based VPS with 1 GB of memory and a 25 GB disk. Nothing "tiny" about this!
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by keyle 4y ago

iLoveOncall 4y ago

Right, with those specs you could run any CMS-based website with images and everything and serve hundreds of users a day without any issue.

Aeolun 4y ago

We can run the same on 32MB though. It’s just that you can’t get any VPS’es in that size any more.

dorfsmay 4y ago
buyvm.com rents 256MB VMs. vultr.com still has some 500MB VMs in some of their DCs. You could also run raspberry pi, or other small SBC form your home.
- billyhoffman 4y ago
  Raspberry Pis, old thinkpads, and the like are how most people host their Gemini capsules
  - dorfsmay 4y ago
    This? https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ Interesting, I did not know about it. Not related to the original link, right?
    - ecliptik 4y ago
      RTC is semi-related to gemini://, they're both loosely affiliated with The Circumlunar Universe [1]. 1. https://phroxy.net/gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/1/universe https://phroxy.net/gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/1/...
  - blippage 4y ago
    Indeed. I run my gemini capsule off of a Raspberry Pi 3 using FreeBSD. The one thing about Pi's is that they sip energy. I was using about 2.4W, so I estimated running costs at less than £7pa. I've no doubt that one could serve gopher pages using a microcontroller like the ESP-32. Gemini would be more difficult, due to encryption requirements. Readers may also be interested to learn of the Spartan protocol, which is basically Gemini without the encryption and a more flexibly upload option. Spartan hasn't really caught on yet, though. I've also heard of a protocol called Mercury, which I assume is similar to Gemini, but even simpler. I've not read up about it, though.

dorfsmay 4y ago

Yeah, this got me: > RESOURCE MINIMALISM. rawtext.club runs on a tiny cloud-based VPS with 1 GB of memory and a 25 GB disk. Nothing "tiny" about this!

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