In 93 a colleague started running Linux at home and I gave him a hard drive and he put Ygddrasil 0.98 (?) on it for me. It took 32 floppy disks apparently. I took it home and stuck it in my 50Mhz i486. I was a programmer and I hated the Windows problems with 64k segments and I was soon dancing with being able to write C programs with remarkable ease. The terrors of the 80s programming were gone!
I've been hosting stuff on a Pi Zero W on our home/office using MariaDB, Apache and PHP (I've written quite a bit of commercial code in it) and it can easily handle a dozen clients or so for simple stuff. Not tried stress testing it 'properly' though.
In 93 a colleague started running Linux at home and I gave him a hard drive and he put Ygddrasil 0.98 (?) on it for me. It took 32 floppy disks apparently. I took it home and stuck it in my 50Mhz i486. I was a programmer and I hated the Windows problems with 64k segments and I was soon dancing with being able to write C programs with remarkable ease. The terrors of the 80s programming were gone!