Website is hosted on a disposable vape

http://ewaste.fka.wtf/

237•BogdanTheGeek•4mo ago

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BogdanTheGeek•4mo ago

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/

zacharynewton•4mo ago

Sounds like you need some more spent vapes ;)

bombcar•4mo ago

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

SmellTheGlove•4mo ago

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

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster

elliotec•4mo ago

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

dev0p•4mo ago

Is this The Cloud that I heard so much about?

subscribed•4mo ago

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.

uyzstvqs•4mo ago

> 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.

addandsubtract•4mo ago

Alternatively, have a 503 "Smoke break" page.

subscribed•4mo ago

OMG, I love the idea

msephton•4mo ago

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

om8•4mo ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20250914222638/http://ewaste.fka...

wslh•4mo ago

And reading the article mentioned there about "THE CHEAPEST FLASH MICROCONTROLLER YOU CAN BUY IS ACTUALLY AN ARM CORTEX-M0+" (2023) [1]

[1] https://jaycarlson.net/2023/02/04/the-cheapest-flash-microco...

rimprobablyly•4mo ago

Returning 503. Guess it got smoked.

BogdanTheGeek•4mo ago

As this vape is so very British, you now have to queue to access the article. I can see that some people are getting though, so that's something.

metal696heart•4mo ago

Vaporised.

prynhart•4mo ago

504 Gateway Time-out

g-mork•4mo ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20250914222638/http://ewaste.fka...

landgenoot•4mo ago

Big promises, but no working website. I call it vaporware

tomhow•4mo ago

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45249287.

NoPicklez•4mo ago

Too many requests and its gone up in a puff of smoke

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