Onno (VK6FLAB)

Build a website on your preferred platform, you’re already using WP.

Create a static version of it. There’s plugins for exactly that purpose.

Put the static files on a web host, I use s3, but you can use whichever you prefer.

When you update the site on WP, run the static extraction again and update your actual site.

This is the job for the OS.

You can run most Linux systems with stupid amounts of swap and the only thing you’ll notice is that stuff starts slowing down.

In my experience, only in extremely rare cases are you smarter than the OS, and in 25+ years of using Linux daily I’ve seen it exactly once, where oomkiller killed running mysqld processes, which would have been fine if the developer had used transactions. Suffice to say, they did not.

I used a 1 minute cron job to reprioritize the process, problem “solved” … for a system that hadn’t been updated for 12 years but was still live while we documented what it was doing and what was required to upgrade it.

Linux aggressively caches things.

4 GB of RAM is not running out of memory.

If you start using swap, you’re running into a situation where you might run out of memory.

If oomkiller starts killing processes, then you’re running out of memory.

Well, unless it came back in the last 25 minutes, it’s working fine in Western Australia.

In Australia:

https://reebelo.com.au/

The open-source alternative to Mailchimp, Brevo, Mailjet, Listmonk, Mailerlite, and Klaviyo, Loop.so, etc.

That’s the first paragraph of the project page.

Not to rain on the parade, but in my experience, having had to email customers in bulk … sending tickets and logistics requirements for large events … I can tell you that self hosting this is a complete and utter waste of time.

You’ll get blocked before the first batch of emails leave your mailer.

Not even paid MailChimp or Campaign Monitor could guarantee delivery.

The problem is not the platform for sending email, it’s the centralised nature of email hosting, much of it is behind Google and Microsoft hosted services.

Docker is not virtualisation, although it’s a common misconception.

A better way to think of it is a security wrapper around untrusted processes.

You can prove this for yourself by looking at all the processes running in a Docker host while one or more containers are running, you’ll see all the processes listed.

In other words, you don’t need a CPU capable of virtualisation to run Docker.

Use a bash command line:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6250698/how-to-decode-url-encoded-string-in-shell

When I last played with this a decade or so ago, there were several map tiling solutions in the geosciences that are self hosted.

From memory, “World Wind” is a good search term, but there’s others.

I use sshfs.

A till.

And an accounting package.

No hosting required.

There’s hundreds, here’s a few tiny ones:

• https://luc.devroye.org/fonts-51468.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250514212230/https://robey.lag.net/2010/01/23/tiny-monospace-font.html
• https://moonbench.xyz/projects/tiny-pixel-art-fonts/
• https://littlelimit.net/misaki.htm
• https://zserge.com/posts/tiny-font/

Example of discussion on the topic:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799686#38802243

As an alternative, the 8-bit world has been doing this for a very … long … time.

Apologies, I accidentally reported your comment as “spam or abuse” … it’s not, you are correct. My Lemmy client UI has some … issues.

With?

I run projects inside Docker on a VM away from important data. It allows me to test and restrict access to specific things of my choosing.

It works well for me.

I’ve never used the tool, but I’m guessing that your Oracle database can create an SQL dump of its schema which presumably is how this tool ingests a database to chart.

If that’s how you want to run your server that’s your choice, but if it were me, I’d think long and hard about the legal implications of doing this.

So far you’ve not said anything about what you’re trying to achieve and that’s not helping.

What specifically are you attempting to achieve, because right now, what little you have shared sends up red flags and rings the alarm bells … loudly.