Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?

Re:Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your ... by sdan on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:52AM (#22167902)

Using an old desktop my dad gave me to spin up some websites getting 1,000,000+ unique visitors monthly. It has some basic specs: 12gb RAM and 8 cores from a decade or so ago.

Was using Raspberry Pis before, but given that many Docker containers don't support ARMv7, I'm just utilizing the luxury of AMD64 (and using Docker Compose, Traefik, and Wireguard to do scaling and networking).

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Re:Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your ... by napolux on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:21AM (#22169070)

> to spin up some websites getting 1,000,000+ unique visitors monthly

What kind of websites?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your ... by nidhalbt on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:00AM (#22167937)

Really cool! But can you tell us what you use Wireguard for?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your ... by sdan on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @12:12PM (#22171386)

Well I don't really want my home IP anything to do with my websites (don't want to deal with dynamic IP or whatever) so I just route traffic to a GCP instance (pretty small one) that routes to the internet (meaning cloudflare).

GCP instance is like the main Wireguard peer and I can easily add my laptop to the VPN so I can remotely ssh into my server.

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