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• Description
• Features
• Screenshots
• Requirements
• Compiling

Description

A web server that has:

• serves static content (HTML, CSS, JS, image, video, audio)
• chat rooms
• watch parties (for Youtube or its own content)
• the ability to display wikipedia-like archives (ugly but readable)
• very low memory, compute and energy requirements

Features

• High-performance
  • It can handle ~3000 HTTPS requests per second on my old laptop
• Robust
  • DOS attack only causes requests to be dropped; the server does not crash unless there are so many incoming network connections that the OS crashes or runs out of memory
• Security
  • Everything runs in one process and one thread
    • A far smaller attack surface than alternatives like apache and nginx
  • If an attacker is able to hack this server, if you use the provided AppArmor profile, he won't be able to modify any files
• Some basic features such as rate limiting
• Unusual features such as the ability to block any requests during night time

Screenshots

Requirements

Running

Your server computer must have:

• Linux
  • Version must be more recent than around 2017 (for several kernel features)
• At least 1 CPU core
• At least 20MB of memory
• At least 1 network connection

Initialising

To initialise files for the server - which can be done on a different computer - requires:

• Python 3
• Admin privileges to allow it to use port 443 (HTTPS)

Compiling

To compile the project:

• C++ compiler
• Unix-style OS (such as Linux or BSD)