GoKawiilThe server
webminal.org runs on a single CentOS Linux box with 8GB RAM. That’s it. No Kubernetes, no microservices, no auto-scaling. One server since 2011. It has survived:
A datacenter fire in 2021 (we lost 150k user accounts)
Multiple power outages in the Netherlands
That one time in 2017 when a Spanish tech blog sent 10,000 users in one day
My friend Freston’s insistence that Slackware is the only real distro
The idea
The idea was simple. I was sitting at my Windows machine at work, wanting to learn Linux. What if I could open a browser, practice on a real Linux terminal - no “Run” button, no “Execute” button, just a real server- gain the confidence, and then spin my chair to a real Linux machine and actually use it? No fear, no hesitation, because I already know what I’m doing.
What’s new
We just gave the entire site a redesign. Every page, from scratch. Here’s what changed:
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