alt Hacker NewsIt is more than a little weird. A pi zero is more than capable of handling HTTP/1.2 and TLS 1.3 for a handful of connections per second. This machine is 10x what we were running web servers on in the '90s.
Also, all web pages are served from RAM. It's automatic that modern OSes will cache this stuff on first access.
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Yeah, I ran a phpbb forum (alongside my normal static site) on a 486 in 2003 or so. It worked. It was slow, but it worked just fine for my friends and I! I remember it took multiple minutes to generate the SSH server key after the initial install lol
Anyone remember 32 bit/33 MHz PCI slot SSL accelerator cards? As I recall openbsd had kernel driver support for several
In unrelated news: I think the Magic-1 is still online. ( https://www.magic-1.org be gentle with it)
>This machine is 10x what we were running web servers on in the '90s.
Kind of irrelevant since operating systems and web pages in the 90's were significantly smaller in footprints, as the web was mostly plain text back then. Windows XP with its GUI would run Max Payne on 128MB of RAM. You could do a lot more back then that You can't do modern stuff like that today with 128MB of RAM.
I was initially thinking does the pi zero even have floating point? But then I remembered that encryption only uses integer operations, not even very large ones.