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Anyone run a service with millions of users from one home computer?

3 points by launchiterate · 4 comments · 1 min read


Wonder if M1 Max folks can now run scaled up services from home on a single machine

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sodimel

I served 120k requests from may, 10th to today from an old dell optiplex fx 160 (choosen in 2017 from this article [0]), which have a poor intel Atom processor & 3Gb of ram.

I have between 1000 & 4000 hits per day (from 400 to 600 visitors, mostly bots I think), so not really millions of users.

The websites hosted on this computer varies from a very simple php website [1], a service that's kinda like Shaarli [2], txt pages for when I share content to websites with heavy traffic [3] (hello HN[4]!), to a dead simple html page [5] (that's where all the bots traffic is coming I think, they really like xyz domains, but I love the fact that I'm able to say "one 2, three 4, five 6" when speaking about my domain :)).

[0] http://thesizzlewo.webflow.io/blog/get-a-dell-optiplex-fx160...

[1] https://l3m.in/

[2] https://links.l3m.in/

[3] https://misc.l3m.in/txt/

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28468977

[5] https://244466666.xyz/

h2odragon

"millions of users" depends on the service, doesn't it? im sure you could serve random integers to millions of clients with quite modest hardware, would that count?

freiherr

Ask HN: Would improve the visibility

hrgiger

Dont know the million part but if memory serves right lkml.org is running from home

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