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Running on

This webapp is served from a 2012 laptop that lived in a drawer for years. The hardware below is the actual hardware handling your requests.

Hardware

Machine
Advent Verona (circa 2012)
CPU
Intel Celeron
RAM
3.0 GB
Storage
Kingston 60GB SATA SSD (scrap pile)
OS
Debian 13 (trixie)
Status
Formerly e-waste
Cost
£0 hardware + ~£15 SSD

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Total possible reasons
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Why this exists

NaaS is a ReadTheManual side project. The point is not the no-generator. The point is the machine it is running on.

The argument: you do not need expensive hardware to learn, build and deploy. You do not even need a Raspberry Pi. A laptop from 2012, an SSD pulled from a drawer, and a free DNS record are enough to put a working webapp on the public internet.

If this Celeron with 3GB of RAM can serve a web application to the internet, your excuse is probably not the hardware.

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