Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running Entirely in RAM

Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running Entirely in RAM 2026-05-08 My micro site, zero.btxx.org, is being served to the public internet from a Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 running Alpine Linux. The best part? It’s diskless and running entirely from memory! My Raspberry Pi Zero silently running in my cold-storage room (with two extra Pis for moral support). Serving zero.btxx.org This is even more impressive considering the Pi Zero only has 512MB of total memory, ~40MB of which is tied up running Alpine Linux. But since RAM is so abundant and cheap these days that we can… Oh, right. Anyway, what a time to be alive! If you’re interested in running your own website off a Pi Zero, follow along! The (Local) Hardware Why the 512MB Micro SD Card? The (External) Hardware VPS Stats Preparing Our microSD Card Alpine Linux in Diskless Mode Software darkhttpd ngnix rsync lbu Opening Ports TierHive VPS TierHive HAProxy Terminating TLS on a VPS Backups Happy Hosting! Before we start, let’s make a…