A tiny Docker image to serve static websites

Re:A tiny Docker image to serve static websites by marginalia_nu on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:01PM (#31006182)

Wanting to own your own web presence is reason not to host them on GitHub.

For static websites, CDNs are largely unnecessary. My potato of a website hosted from a computer in my living room has been on the front page of HN several times without as much as increasing its fan speed.

It took Elon Musk tweeting a link to one of my blog posts before it started struggling to serve pages. I think it ran out of file descriptors, but I've increased that limit now.

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Re:A tiny Docker image to serve static websites by flatiron on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @08:17PM (#31009759)

Was it through a VPN? I feel like revealing my home IP to random people on the internet is a bad move.

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Re:A tiny Docker image to serve static websites by marginalia_nu on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @04:36AM (#31012399)

No VPN. I have the ports fairly well tightened down, though. I'm exposed to a zero-day in iptables itself or something, but whatever. Even if someone got in it would be an inconvenience at worst. It's not like I'm making money off this stuff.

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Re:A tiny Docker image to serve static websites by lostlogin on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:19PM (#31006437)

Are you able to describe how you run yours? I scummed your blog but didn’t see anything about it.

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Re:A tiny Docker image to serve static websites by marginalia_nu on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:29PM (#31006560)

The static content is just nginx loading files straight off a filesystem. The dynamic content (e.g. the search engine) is nginx forwarding requests to my Java-based backend.

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Re:A tiny Docker image to serve static websites by Dma54rhs on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @08:49PM (#31009978)

You can serve massive amount of static requests from any potato really, it's a solved problem.

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