🖥️ My ultra-budget server powering http://websysctl.alfonsosiciliano.net has been running smoothly for the past 2 months. So far, so good!
📈 #Crawlers hit tens of thousands of sysctl parameter pages daily. That's fine, since robots.txt allows it. But why keep requesting non-existent pages as if the site were built with WordPress 😤 ? Fortunately, the stack (#FreeBSD + #OpenResty 🌐 + #Lapis ✏️ + a custom-built #database 📦 ) stays well within the limited resources of my $5/month cloud server.
The code might soon be #OpenSource stay tuned!
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