Website is hosted on a disposable vape

Re:Website is hosted on a disposable vape by BogdanTheGeek on Sunday September 14, 2025 @06:33PM (#45243957)

And... its down already. It can only handle about 10 requests at a time, so take turns guys :) Here is the same article but with hopefully better uptime: https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

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Re:Website is hosted on a disposable vape by zacharynewton on Sunday September 14, 2025 @07:45PM (#45244496)

Sounds like you need some more spent vapes ;)

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Re:Website is hosted on a disposable vape by SmellTheGlove on Sunday September 14, 2025 @07:50PM (#45244536)

Wait, are we back to imagining beowulf clusters [0] of things!?

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Re:Website is hosted on a disposable vape by bombcar on Sunday September 14, 2025 @07:46PM (#45244509)

The Internet server version of that old photo of a guy with an entire carton in his mouth.

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Re:Website is hosted on a disposable vape by elliotec on Sunday September 14, 2025 @08:53PM (#45244925)

Easy, just set up your other hoarded ones to make a mesh and do some distributed sharding in the vape cloud!

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Re:Website is hosted on a disposable vape by dev0p on Monday September 15, 2025 @03:18AM (#45247002)

Is this The Cloud that I heard so much about?

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Re:Website is hosted on a disposable vape by subscribed on Monday September 15, 2025 @04:24AM (#45247374)

It's your fault for not putting CDN in front of it

Really neat achievement, it'd stand out on your CV, make sure to always add it there, it'll spark a fun chat on interviews.

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Re:Website is hosted on a disposable vape by uyzstvqs on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:05AM (#45248000)

> It's your fault for not putting CDN in front of it

That's no fun. The right answer is to distribute load across a cluster of 100 repurposed disposable vapes.

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Re:Website is hosted on a disposable vape by addandsubtract on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:37AM (#45248939)

Alternatively, have a 503 "Smoke break" page.

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Re:Website is hosted on a disposable vape by subscribed on Thursday September 18, 2025 @01:10PM (#45292232)

OMG, I love the idea

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Re:Website is hosted on a disposable vape by msephton on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:37AM (#45247836)

Thanks for mirroring, and well done! I really enjoyed the topic and tone of your writing.

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