CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@collectifission yes you should!

@soviut that must be from the previous owners! Oddly the chip had no thermal paste once I opened it up!

@soviut the challenge here is making sure the OS and the stack is new enough to be exposed to the scary portion of the internet!

@steffeng We're all 486

@humanhorseshoes oh my! How do Pentium chips vanish?

@humanhorseshoes yeah these are not that great compared to the rest of the Sun stuff. They pretty much use commodity hardware (IDE drives for example). But a fun box to play with!

@_davd it was so fun to build!

Can a 2001 Sun SPARC server host a website in 2026?

Spoiler: Yes. Yes it can.

I got my Sun Netra X1 running OpenBSD + httpd serving actual web traffic.

Full writeup: https://rup12.net/posts/can-my-sparc-server-host-my-website/

#homelab #SPARC #retro #selfhosted #OpenBSD #Cloudflare #vintagecomputing #sysadmin #Sun