Since moving to a supersmall server, my main concerns were its performance. Those turned out to be unfounded. Which, letâs face it, isnât much of a surprise. 2005s me would have given one and a half below-the-knee legs for a server with the beef provided by the, now crazily low-powered, Raspberry Pi 2.
Turns out that, once youâve got the âwill this serveâ question dealt with, the next frontier are those 4x100 scores from Google. At least if youâre participating in the niche community of supersmall server fanatics.
Who, by the by, consider me a âsuperpowerâ user, seeing how the current reigning champ is serving a website from his toaster oven. And, no, this ainât a scam, he really does.
Getting to 100x4 wasnât super hard. New image formats and aggressive cache values make even the obnoxius âmedimikkaâ background figure bearable, and the rest is just text, serve from a slimmed down nginx version that is all the rage in supersmall circles.
Accessibility is more or less just a question of alt texts, screen reader readiness with ARIA, and choosing high contrast colors (no #f00 for you, bucko).
Best practices is a weird one and largely not applicable to this site. I donât prevent pasting passwords, because there are none. I donât ask for geolocation or, in fact, log anything, because who needs that? And I donât set cookies, for the same reason.
Leaves SEO, which leaves me cold, but of course Google has to have that in its checks. A quick meta description and weâre all set.
So now I am super-not-super-small and 4x100. Next up: implementing XFN again, maybe having a look at webmentions for some fun with commentary, getting a non-sucking comment system implemented⌠the stuff people do, when theyâre given too little free time to do actually meaningful things.