Why can't people put a little effort and host those pages on their hardware/software of choice but at least put them behind some CDN (at least for static resources)?
Part of the challenge for me was to avoid any proxies and and have all requests go directly to the ReactOS system.
I’m totally aware that this doesn’t make any sense in a real-world scenario.
Try this, and it’ll work: http://reactos.aaron.cc/
Probably doesn't have a letsencrypt client.
Maybe there's no SSL/TLS library that works on it at all.
> Probably doesn't have a letsencrypt client.
Right, Certbot doesn’t work because of an issue with Python, however, it’s easy to generate the certificates elsewhere and inject them into the virtual machine.
> Maybe there's no SSL/TLS library that works on it at all.
There is, but the OS needs to be patched to fix a socket issue (see https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/4086 which was never merged because of side effects). The patch does seem to work for my use case and I had actually the site running on HTTPS, but a few hours later it become unresponsive. I didn’t realize that this was probably just due to the HN DOS. I will give HTTPS another shot later today.
Then somebody posts a link, which, against all odds, gets enough upvotes, et voilà, their hardware is melting under the load