What’s more solarpunk than using old hardware destined for the dump to host a cool website?
years ago I read about a protocol to treat webpages like torrents.
so if a website becomes popular, it’ll be accessed not from a main server, but from every who has seen it and cached it.
that would be perfect for “microservers” like this.
what sucks is that I don’t remember any specific name for that protocol, so I cant search for it and figure out if it’s actually a thing or some vague prototype.
Sounds like Gnunet or sone other P2P system?
PeerTube does this in a way. When you’re watching a video, other users can stream it from you directly.
IPFS?
possibly, sad we are moving towards having like 5 websites, instead of countless small websites.
They’re still around, tho:
Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
Edit: In case you don’t like surprises: https://wiby.me/
Ah like the low tech magazine website! Fuckin’ s i c k!!!
I love this idea, though I wish they some information about what software it is running.
It says it’s a static website on postmarketos. So, I’m guessing… some Apache server?
It’s nginx according to the response headers.
Do you think that’s not just the reverse-proxy (for the ssl certificates)? Can you just serve a homepage via nginx? I’m guessing you could simply redirect into a webroot dir with html files, but is it practical?
nginx is a very capable web server by itself, the reverse proxy is just one small part of it.
Without more information I’m just guessing, but they’re probably running the whole thing on-device, the CPU in that phone should have hardware cryptography support (For AES), but even ChaCha is pretty efficient in software on chips like that.
TIL
… but you could probably use something like termux to do something similar if postmarketos doesnt work on your phone for any reason.
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Not this site exactly, but started digging and found this article, about running k8s on Android phones using the same OS. Hope it is interesting.
Bravo!
That’s super cool
