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Re:Show HN: My website, hosted on a 386 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM... by WheelsAtLarge on Saturday April 16, 2022 @10:22PM (#31057897)
I find it interesting how little computer power you need to host a highly accessed website by using CloudFlare. When 386's were the cutting edge it would have taken a car load of computers plus some fancy cutting edge load balancing software. All very expensive.
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Re:Show HN: My website, hosted on a 386 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM... by vlovich123 on Saturday April 16, 2022 @11:15PM (#31058146)
You could put that entire web page in a Worker probably and not even bother with an origin (or use CF pages).

Disclaimer: I work on R2

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Re:Show HN: My website, hosted on a 386 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM... by tbyehl on Saturday April 16, 2022 @11:49PM (#31058308)
The 386 was far from cutting edge by the time Al G^H^H^H^H Tim Berners-Lee got around to inventing the Inter^H^H^H^H^H World Wide Web.
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Re:Show HN: My website, hosted on a 386 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM... by Tepix on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:23AM (#31058933)
The web was invented in 1989, the same year the 80486 hit the market. So the 80386 wasn't that far from the cutting edge.
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