Can my SPARC server host a website?

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org⁩ to ⁨retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org⁩

https://rup12.net/posts/can-my-sparc-server-host-my-website/

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?

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It would work fine without Cloudflare. The server is running the current version of OpenBSD, so it could be configured to safely host a website without any tunnels.

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LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Calm down dude, don’t crucify the guy just because he doesn’t feel like directly exposing his server to the world wide web.

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vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I have one of those in my loft. Used to use it for OpenBSD development.

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- evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I have one as well, mothballed, which is why the article caught my attention. Then I saw all the mention of Cloudflare an thought: oh fuck, so it needs a wheelchair, in effect.
  
  What originally attracted me was running a full-blown ZFS, which was too license encumbered to be fully featured in linux or bsd, IIRC. I never got around to doing much with it. And I wonder if ZFS is finally fully liberated on a FOSS platform.
  
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  - vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  - hexagonwin@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    it’s just GPL that’s incompatible with ZFS’s CDDL. FreeBSD has ZFS support built in (OpenZFS). Linux is also supported by OpenBSD.
    
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