| ▲ | Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running in RAM(btxx.org) |
| 40 points by xngbuilds an hour ago | 7 comments |
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| ▲ | c0nsumer 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| This feels a little weird because while they are running the website itself (HTTP) off the Pi, they are handing off all TLS to a cloud provider. So while the content is in RAM on the Pi, a lot of the heavier lifting (TLS termination) is done elsewhere, which saves a ton of CPU load on the Pi. |
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| ▲ | MitPitt 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A raspberry zero is more powerful than an enterprise server from the 1990s. A minimalist static website is not impressive. You can fit way more in there. |
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| ▲ | alfanick 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Hey, it loads! Unlike ~10% of pages on first page of HN, hugged to death. | | |
| ▲ | raddan 18 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Also I love the dithered B&W images. The entire aesthetic of the site is great. |
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| ▲ | vablings 20 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The website running on the vape was far more interesting than this. I do wonder if anyone has tried to use the microphone in these devices to listen to audio. Backdoored vape | |
| ▲ | raddan 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | I hosted my personal email domain on a Zero for almost 10 years. It had about the same capability as the very expensive (and large) Win NT4 machine we used for our 80-person organization when I started my career in tech. I eventually replaced the Zero with a Raspberry Pi 4, primarily because the Zero’s IO ports are annoying (eg, USB is not hot-pluggable!) An RPi 4 is extreme overkill for personal email but it still idles under 1W and when it fails I can replace the entire machine for next to nothing. The point of failure for all of these machines has been the SD card. They seem to last 4 years almost to the day. I suppose if I set up a RAMdisk they might last longer, but honestly, for the price of an SD card it’s not really worth my time. |
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| ▲ | sphars 17 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The OP link is not to Pi zero website, here's the actual website that's being hosted on the Raspberry Pi: https://zero.btxx.org/ |
