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Anyone interested in a LowEndChallenge?
Okay, so I had a crazy idea.
I provide some UltraLowEnd OVZ Boxes. Say we start with 10MB ram or something.
Now you have to setup a blog or something on that box.
BUT there are a few things.
No outbound traffic. So you can't simply wget stuff, but have to get a little bit more creative to get things on the box.
You might have a restricted envorinment. So maybe like no python/perl whatever preinstalled. Maybe only gcc or something. No netcat too?
And some other things.
Then i thought we could lower the RAM over time and who's blog runns for the longest time wins.
Now my questions: Would anyone even be interested to participate?
Any more ideas for restrictions to make it more fun?
Comments
And where the heck I will get the 10MB ones
@yomero
I'll provide them for free during the contest.
When you SSH into a server it uses bandwidth. It shows up in solusvm. So you would have to add a little outbound.
2.6.18 or 2.6.32
@PytoHost
What i meant is like a NAT, so you can accept connections, but not connect other hosts.
@Francisco
No idea. I've never setup OVZ, but i figured it can't be that hard since i don't really need to provide a professional service. but what i heard 2.6.18 is more stable. So i'd probably go with that.
I just want to know if anyone's even interested before i set any details in stone.
Sounds crazy and has no sense. Well, count me in!
"640kb ought to be enough for anybody"
Anyone remembers those 4k demos from back then? Amazing what one could do with just 4k of code...
2.6.32 would give accurate ram so people would have more wiggle.
What features should the blog have?
If the goal is an ultra-low-memory setup, then wouldn't KVM be better? People can't customize the OvZ kernel.
10 mb ... you need that much for os ram.
Sounds cool, but can Nginx even run off 5-10 megabytes or RAM?
@Francisco
Then .32 it -is- will be.
@rds100
No idea yet. You tell me!
@raindog308
True dat. But the thing is, i don't have a dedi. So i wanted to setup OVZ in KVM since it's just to play around anyways. And i think KVM in KVM will not work? Think it would be just qemu software emulation?
@BassHost
Are you kidding me? If it's OVZ you can easily get it down to 6mb, probably down to 4. that means 6mb to play around.
@NateN34
Yet it can, but you need the OS, your shell, the blog itself in there too. So i hope no nginx, that'd be too easy
You really do need a dedi. Myself or other hosts could prob give you a cheap dedi to run this on
Who needs nginx when you can make your own webserver
@vedran
That's the spirit.
You can hack this in a few lines of C with a blog in it, since it doesn't need to be HTTP compilant anyways. Just grab the GET and serve the blog.
You can run a web server completely off Shell now-a-days anyway.
LAWL....what's the prize?
A 5MB VPS.
see here.. http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/54114#Comment_54114
@Mon5t3r is that possible on any of the listed hosts here, was far as i understand it still depends if the host is patched?
Didn't we had such a competition already? I remeber @KuJoe creating some really low end plans (16MB) some time ago. Correct me if I'm complete wrong.
There is a 32/64 one.
haha great fun idea, count me in.
Well, and what happened with the project of @sleddog?
Seems more funny
There was a lot of talk in the thread but no takers. I'd still love to sponsor a <16MB blog though.
I might be willing throw in (16 MB VPS)x25 for 30 days for this challenge.
I'm in! Sounds like a good times.
will gcc run on small memory?
@jcaleb: Compile elsewhere, then copy and paste the base64-encoded binary to the target
...that sounds incredibly painful...