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I use it because that’s the one I’m most familiar with. Using it since 15 years and counting. And since it doesn’t the job for me, I never had the urge to look into alternatives.

Hi, author here.

Caching is already enabled, but this doesn’t work for the highly dynamic parts of the site like version history and looking for recent changes.

And yes, it doesn’t work for volumetric attacks with tens of gbps. At this point I don’t think it is a targeted attack, probably a crawler gone really wild. But for this pattern, it simply works.

A No-CD patch would likely work, but I want to keep things as close to the original as possible. I want to be able to play a game or run an application without any third-party software required, just using a perfect backup/image.

Correct, that was the only way to get things working.

That's my current theory as well. IMHO that's the reason why an upgrade from 98 to XP failed while it ran successfully by using Windows 2000 as the base installation.

Note that I was totally skipping the text-based installation stage when upgrading from Windows 2000 while I got it when starting the installation from Windows 98 - that's where the "NT conversion, stupid!"-theory came from.

Hi folks, thank you so much for your comments!

Yes, this was purely a "why not?!" project, it doesn't really make sense and using VMware or true low-level emulation like 86Box is a way better option than using completely unsupported software.

Currently going through your comments...

Thank you very much for your feedback - I’ll check out the template you made! I’m sure to find some inspiration there