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

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I've never tried Webminal (only used Linode for it's simplicity). But, it seems great. I'll probably try it out.

giisOP

Sure thanks, Let me know if you have feedback.

I really like the ease of use of the site. It's also very clean. However, when you go into the Linux, there is a bit of latency (very noticeable). I know that it's impossible to remove the latency completely (it is what it is), but is there a way to slightly reduce it?

giisOP

There will be little latency if you access from different region. Server located at Singapore. From India, I checked right now directly via this link https://www.webminal.org/terminal/proxy/index/ I dont see much issue. I use firefox/chrome on Debian. May be try with different browser?

How does it only work on 8gb of RAM if it serves 500k users (albeit not all 500k at once)?

giisOP

Only UML is the resource consuming part kept as option available on request. Rest of them all shared Shellinabox, nginx,Flask and each active user session consumes little RAM since its a shared terminal. Simple `ls /home` shows all other users on that server!

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