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Comment by 💀 requiem

Re: "Running Gemini and HTTP from a 12US$ SBC"

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I’m toying with the idea of running a Gemini capsule off an ESP32 just for gimmicks…

💀 requiem

Jun 03 · 3 months ago

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🐐 drh3xx · Jun 03 at 12:07:

@requim I can't remember which capsule but someone is running a gemini server on an ESP32.

📡 Queen_City_Nerd · Jun 03 at 16:04:

I host my telnet BBS from a Pi 3B+

🚲 Aelspire · Jun 03 at 18:59:

I’ve hosted my capsule on Orange Pi PC for some time. I worked pretty well, but I killed one of my SD cards (old one, not new one, it was working in my phone for a while) and than wanted to keep data on HDD in external socket connected via USB and killed HDD in result too.

With external HDD I’ve managed to cram Syncthing, stargazer (Gemini server), cgit, nginx, Xandikos and Miniflux with PostgreSQL on it. And I think that having almost 300GB of data on it + connection via USB was causing problems with storage longevity…

💀 requiem · Jun 03 at 23:47:

@michaelnordmeyer And how incredibly good of the author to publish the server source code!

🍀 gritty · Jun 04 at 00:17:

I hosted on my Pi for a while but didn't want people connecting to my home network.

😈 dimkr · Jun 04 at 19:58:

My capsule was previously on an ESP32 but now it's on a Pi Pico W - TLS handshakes are super slow (was much faster with ESP32 but concurrent connection limit was lower)

💀 requiem · Jun 05 at 20:03:

Esp’s have a crypto chip to handle TLS don’t they? Pretty cool about hosting uour capsule off an ESP tho. I might think up some fun ways to include ESP’s in gemini space apart from hosting. “Sm0lnet of things” style.

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— My gemini capsule

Running Gemini and HTTP from a 12US$ SBC — I am proud to have migrated my Gemini capsule and web blog into an Orange Pi Zero that I bought years ago and never really knew what to do with because it was so underpowered. However, hosting both protocols is requiring only a handful of megabytes of RAM, so I am eager to think about more use cases for it!

💬 xavi · 9 comments · 10 likes · Jun 03 · 3 months ago