Opening this up to others for input: if you were developing #webapplications for extremely limited CPU and power situations — that is, a #solar powered server with a small lead acid battery, where the server is really an ARM SBC — what choices would you make?
I’m going off the experiences of following along with @solaradmin — heavyweight Rails apps with a job queue and a full DB like Postgres only get a limited number of hours to run per day. (Mastodon is such an app.)
If we look at mostly -static sites like https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com there is still a limited amount of power per day to run on. (Low Tech Magazine has a clever way of indicating the power status on each page, which I like. It could equally have a small dynamic header element that shows the serve charge, I think.)
Likely this won’t try to do things like “follow the sun” with multiple serves around the world and https://www.solarprotocol.net/ — I’m developing apps for communication and collaboration in specific neighborhoods and an internet connection may not even be present.
Thoughts, #webdev folks?
