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Hosting this website on a farm – or anywhere (jeffgeerling.com)
29 points by geerlingguy on Feb 9, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



You slighted Elon and lived? Very impressive. Those Fanboys are crazy.


The next step would be to send Turing Pi cluster to space!


Does not load?


https://twitter.com/geerlingguy/status/1491459464339374082 attacked, apparently. Because of course it was


Got it back up now, but via Cloudflare I'm still seeing millions of POST requests per hour. Thankfully they aren't hitting the backend anymore.

One point I had made was that for 13 years I've served the site from a VPS without having to use Cloudflare. Now, apparently a few people (or one person) decided to point some sort of little botnet at it, and I have to use Cloudflare.

Gone are the days when I could smugly remark my website was still up when Cloudflare was down :(




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