15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die

The 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, wantin...