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What to do with an old iPad

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190 points owenmakes | 2 comments | 05 Sep 25 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source

Coming back with my own blog (hosted on iPad 2) after asking here the same question
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nugzbunny ◴[06 Sep 25 22:36 UTC] No.45153542[source]▶
So, if you’re reading this post right now, it means my server is working, and that this site is being served by an iPad 2 from 2012, running iOS 6.1.3 and Insomnia to keep it connected to Wi-Fi.

When I pinged your domain it came back as CloudFlare. Did you mean

So, if you’re reading this post right now, it means this site is being served CloudFlare.

I jest. I imagine you did this to keep your IP address private? Just curious why it wasn't mentioned in the blog post? My original question was going to be if your ISP may have a problem with your set up (giving it's on the front page of HN and will be experiencing some traffic).

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Nextgrid ◴[07 Sep 25 00:54 UTC] No.45154301[source]▶
> your ISP may have a problem with your set up (giving it's on the front page of HN and will be experiencing some traffic)

Does your ISP have a problem when your computer/phone/etc does a cloud backup? Or when you torrent? Because both of those will max out your upload bandwidth much more than hosting a static website.

I think the concerns about ISPs complaining are extremely overblown on HN, but happy to be proven wrong.

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1. heavyset_go ◴[07 Sep 25 20:23 UTC] No.45161795[source]▶
> I think the concerns about ISPs complaining are extremely overblown on HN, but happy to be proven wrong.

Look at your agreement with your ISP. They typically segment the market into consumer/business plans where running a server requires a business plan versus a consumer plan.

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2. op00to ◴[07 Sep 25 20:52 UTC] No.45162027[source]▶
I have fiber in the east coast of the US with a national provider. They don’t care about uploading, at least up to 10-15 TB/month.