“Can my 2001 SPARC server host a website in 2026?” A: yes (if Cloudflare is okay.. yikes) (rup12.net)

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TL;DR: .. hosting a website on a 25-year-old Sun Netra X1 SPARC server running OpenBSD 7.8. The setup includes: Noctua fan mods for quiet operation, httpd serving static HTML/CSS, OpenBSD’s pf firewall with default-deny rules, and Cloudflare tunnels to expose it safely without port forwarding. The server pulls ~55MB of RAM and serves pages from my garage. Check it out live at sparc.rup12.net - because why not?

Well, the guy licks Cloudflare’s boots. Fuck that. He doesn’t understand the problem with that. So perhaps the real answer is NO, if he depends on Cloudflare Inc.

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[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, sun did some really cool stuff towards the end. ZFS, zones, SMF. I always liked their ALOM lights out management too. RIP sun.

My file server uses zfs on Linux.

As the other commenter says, GPL somewhat disagrees with the license. It flips the taint flag on the Linux kernel too.

I tried btrfs, but it's not ready IMHO.

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