Smol Hosts, or something like that...
I wanted to make a section for "smol hosts." I don't know what else to call it, really.
I also don't want to be overtly self-promoting, but still thought my service was relevant to post somewhere.
I run Slow Servers, which I think would count by anyone as a "smol host." And I am not even sure I like the "smol host" term -- maybe someone else has a better idea?
Hopefully there are others around, or others will start. Of course I feel that if you self-host, that is the best option!
But what makes it a smol host?
- Payment in crypto (BTC, BCH, or XMR) -- Though I'm not sure if crypto counts as "smol."
- Payment in silver or cash by mail.
- VM Hosts run OpenBSD.
- Hardware is as secondhand as possible. Few "new" resources used.
- You can see pictures of most of the gear. It's a little more tangible.
- It's tuned for power efficiency, not speed.
- Datacenter is a 100+ year old building in Spokane, WA, USA.
Anyway, if you're curious.
Slow Servers (Tor Hidden Service)
#VPS
Mar 04 · 2 months ago
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🐐 boringbbsuser [OP/mod] · Mar 04 at 00:41:
Thinking about it from more, two "smol hosts" do come to mind. I think neither are on Gemini, though.
Sounds like Oracle. Crappy equipment and can't process credit cards :)
neat. your capsule is stacked with info.
why only ipv6? would that incur any difficulties serving on here?
I admittedly don't know all that much about ipv6
For what it’s worth, I don’t think of crypto as “smol” at all.
TLS is computationally heavy
🐐 boringbbsuser [OP/mod] · Mar 04 at 15:11:
@gritty IPv4 addresses are limited and somewhat expensive. With SNIProxy I can still route traffic to IPv6-only servers, so if you have a capsule on Slow Servers it can still be reached via IPv4 if you request to have it added to my SNIProxy instance.