About the Solar Powered Website
solar.lowtechmagazine.com
This website is solar-powered and self-hosted. It has been designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.

I hope this place won’t hug it too hard, it’s on 61% battery as of writing. Has translations in fr, de, nl, es, it, pt

The average page size of this website is below 0.5 MB – roughly a sixth of the average page size of the original website

SERVER: This website runs on an Olimex A20 computer. It has 2 Ghz of processing power, 1 GB of RAM, and 16 GB of storage. The server draws 1 - 2.5 watts of power.

SERVER SOFTWARE: The webserver runs Armbian Stretch, a Debian based operating system built around the SUNXI kernel. We wrote technical documentation for configuring the webserver. [comfy’s note: worth checking out]

DESIGN SOFTWARE: The website is built with Pelican, a static site generator. [comfy note: Teppichbrand replied confirming they now use Hugo]

I also like the dithering aesthetic with the site images, both practical and stylistic.

  • Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    This is very cool. I run a website for a charity and this had certainly made me reflect on how I could reduce its power consumption (even with it hosted on 100% renewable power servers)