Hi all,
As some of you have noticed I've been researching and setting up a fully HP200LX hosted website for my youtube channel,
which will also become the subject of my next big technical/educational video.
I've ironed out all the issues and the 200LX is running the website in a stable way now
It should be available from now on 24/7.
The actual website is'nt %100 finished yet, but there's plenty of content
(pages and images
) to browse.
The main problem is that nowadays you NEED https
(secure/ssl
) access to your website otherwise people will get
a nasty warning page saying that your website is'nt secure, which could scare off some visitors,
and also google tends to prioritize HTTPS sites over HTTP sites when indexing.
Thus, I added a raspberry PI and installed apache2 on it with, bought an SSL certificate for my domain name,
installed it with apache2, and configured it as a reverse SSL proxy server.
This machine does'nt serve any website files, it simply receives incoming HTTPS requests on port 443,
decrypts them, then loads the page/images/etc... from the 200LX via HTTP,
and encrypts and sends everything back.
It's an easy way to add HTTPS support to a webserver that is simply too slow to do SSL encryption,
and, the webserver software I'm using on the 200LX does'nt support ssl anyway.
What I need now, before I release my video, is some help testing it.
Could I ask that everyone that reads this message and has 5 minutes to spare run some tests from your location
and see if everything works fine ?
The site is physically served from my home in New Zealand, with a static IP and gigabit fiber,
so it could be slow in some areas of the world as New Zealand is'nt that well connected to the world from a server point of view...
You should be able to access the site with HTTP and HTTPS in an identical fashion.
Remember that in both cases you are using the 200LX's http server which is actually serving the website files,
so i'm not cheating in any way with the raspberry PI.
Here are the urls:
HTTP
(connect directly to the 200LX webserver
):
http://www.palmtoptube.com
HTTPS
(connect with https to 200LX webserver thru the SSL reverse proxy on the raspberry PI
):
https://www.palmtoptube.com
I'd be interested in hearing from you the following feedback:
1. Do both HTTP and HTTPS URLs work fully
(eg, can you access not just the frontpage but all pages with the menu on the left, and do all images etc load?
2. What kind of speed are you getting ? is it too slow for practical use, okay to use, or fast
3. Do you observe any differences in speed or response between HTTP and HTTPS access ?
4. Can you do some stress testing and rapidly reload a complex page with SHIFT+reload so it reloads all images etc...
(like the shop page with all the serdaco product images
) to really bombard the 200LX with requests ?
Please report your findings here, I'd really appreciate it
I'll be updating/completing the site during the next few days, and hope to finish my video about the process of setting everything up in a few days...
Cheers,
Terrence
Edited by radiance32 2022-02-15 12:43 AM