I think that it mentioned that the most intensive thing is the blog (which can be fairly static, even more so as raspberry pi’s blog doesn’t have a reply feature) I don’t see a mention of forum on the post, even.
We used the main blog, which hosts the www.raspberrypi.org blog, and has historically been the most CPU-intensive site to provide.
edit: nvm, I see that they do have comments on the blog. It makes more sense now. Still makes me wonder how much the software could be optimized though.
Tangentially related, but I’ve been using a reverse tunnel – cloudflare argo tunnel – to run a bunch of apps/sites on my Pi3 and with proper caching in place, it’s a pretty decent setup performance wise.
I’m actually surprised that a mostly static website requires 18 Pi 4s.
Not really static, if the Pi’s are running the forum, blog, etc.
I think that it mentioned that the most intensive thing is the blog (which can be fairly static, even more so as raspberry pi’s blog doesn’t have a reply feature) I don’t see a mention of forum on the post, even.
edit: nvm, I see that they do have comments on the blog. It makes more sense now. Still makes me wonder how much the software could be optimized though.
The site is currently running on Pi 3’s the Pi 4’s currently don’t netboot which is a hard requirement for Mythic-Beasts.
Hopefully that will be resolved shortly and then the site will be hosted off the Pi 4.
This tweet (2 days later than the article) contradicts you: https://mobile.twitter.com/Mythic_Beasts/status/1143045366675312641
true - they’ve obviously solved the netboot issue :~)
Tangentially related, but I’ve been using a reverse tunnel – cloudflare argo tunnel – to run a bunch of apps/sites on my Pi3 and with proper caching in place, it’s a pretty decent setup performance wise.