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“Can my 2001 SPARC server host a website in 2026?” A: yes (if Cloudflare is okay.. yikes) (rup12.net)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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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?

Well, the guy licks Cloudflare’s boots. Fuck that. He doesn’t understand the problem with that. So perhaps the real answer is NO, if he depends on Cloudflare Inc.

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 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.