Documentation lacks serverside system requirements

[GraionDilach]

Hi, this is an interesting project and I kinda like the idea.

However, I went through the documentation - the website mentions 128 MB RAM as a requirement, but there's no details about it at all. The reason I'm asking is because I'm selfhosting my hobby projects on a Raspberry Pi3 server where I could see the point of deploying Anubis (currently I'm just spamming 418s instead of 404s and explicitly storing everything under subfolder domains as a dumb hack) but I don't know if such a hardware can deal with the PoW validation and I honestly don't want to hop into the setup without knowing if the hardware is capable to begin with.

The 128 MB RAM requirement is okay though, I have the 1 GB model and I'm not even using a quarter of it, it's the CPU bottleneck I'm worried about.

Could anyone share some statistics generated from Anubis's use as a reference?

[oxfalafal]

● botstopper.service - Anubis HTTP defense proxy
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/botstopper.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/botstopper.service.d
└─override.conf
Active: active (running) since Thu 2026-06-04 15:07:33 UTC; 1 day 20h ago
Main PID: 29272 (botstopper)
Tasks: 18 (limit: 20965)
Memory: 19.9M (peak: 43.9M)
CPU: 15min 3.506s
CGroup: /system.slice/botstopper.service

On a service getting high 000k's to low millions per day. I wouldn't worry about RAM usage.

edit: that last bit was badly written - the compute really isn't in the validation, it's in the crunching at the client level

[GraionDilach]

What is that CPU you're sourcing this from? I mentioned that I'm not too worried aboiut the RAM footprint and it's the CPU spiking I'm moreso worried about.

[Xe]

I think I have a raspi 3 in my office somewhere. I can dig it up and run benchmarks maybe. I know I have a raspi 4 embedded in a homelab machine.