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Tux Machines Runs on Very Little CPU and RAM
When Tux Machines started in 2004 it was hosted from a home (residential) and then adopted Drupal, which might scale OK for a rather small audience and with no (or few) bots.
When the site moved to the UK we put it in an American datacentre, but it was managed from the UK. In 2023 we also moved the hosting to the UK, this time without Drupal and without the bloat that made Tux Machines expensive to run. As a result, instead of a load average of 10-30 we now have it scaled down to nearly 0, even when traffic is high. At the moment:
04:26:38 up 65 days, 10:41, 23 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
RAM usage is another matter. With Static Site Generators (SSGs), little RAM is required and I/O is also low.
We've basically reduced the environmental/carbon footprint of the site by a factor of ~100 (2 orders of magnitude).
SSGs are the way to go in a Web that is so full of junk traffic. █