Running a Public Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero with 512MB RAM, Entirely in Memory
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Summary
A developer describes running a public-facing website (zero.btxx.org) from a Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 with only 512MB of RAM, using Alpine Linux in a diskless, RAM-only configuration. The article highlights the technical achievement of serving a live website to the public internet from extremely constrained hardware, with ~40MB of memory consumed by the OS itself.
Key quotes
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The best part? It's diskless and running entirely from memory!
This is even more impressive considering the Pi Zero only has 512MB of total memory, ~40MB of which is tied up running Alpine Linux.
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