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

3 points by launchiterate 4 years ago · 4 comments · 1 min read


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

sodimel 4 years ago

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 4 years ago

"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 4 years ago

Ask HN: Would improve the visibility

hrgiger 4 years ago

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

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