A few months ago I mentioned that I was serving this site from a pair of Minisforum MS-01 mini-PCs. The MS-01 is a smallish PC with an Intel laptop CPU, 2 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, 2 10 GbE SFP+ interfaces, and a low-profile PCIe slot. I was able to get amazingly good performance–almost 60 Gbps– using a single MS-01s as a web server, but it required adding a 2-port Mellanox 100 GbE NIC to the PCIe slot. Unfortunately, the NIC drew more power than the rest of the machine combined and ne...
