Subj : Re: Help with List Groups To : Lance Lyon From : Time Warrior Date : Sat Sep 24 2005 09:17 am To: Lance Lyon Re: Re: Help with List Groups By: Lance Lyon to alt.bbs.internet on Sat Sep 24 2005 10:27 am > "Time Warrior" wrote in > message news:43318219.2566.altinet@malkaviabbs.com... > > You can host this on your home broadband connection. > I'm in the process of moving away from this, although my connection is fast, > it just isn't fast enough, get 10 nodes active at once, & each node > deteriorates to less than dial-up speed if they're all transferring files or > playing games. For a serious multi-line setup, get it hosted. Wow, thats crazy. Most of us wish we had the same problem! :-) However, there are middle ground solutions. I'll elaborate... Keep your BBS on Broadband but do the following: Public FTP: When in doubt, use *everyone elses* bandwidth :-) Most FTP Servers can map external FTP links as directories. Go hunting for some good Public FTP's (BBS's or otherwise) that have files that aren't crap and let em use those. For the files you have available, I'm sure the other Sysops wouldnt mind if you gave them your current file archives. Uploaders are rare and leeches are common. Chat: Telnet takes up very little bandwidth. Link to an external IRC Server someplace. I'm not sure what BBS Software you run but most have the ability (either native or via a door) to act as a telnet IRC Client. You can also use PJIRC on the web to access this as well. Message Areas: Telnet doesn't take much bandwidth and NNTP is just a file transfer so today with most people being main stream, web would be the huge issue. Get a web host (linux) and run phpBB with the Newssync Addon. Newssync will allow phpBB to poll your BBS via NNTP on a cron event (or manually, but who wants to do that? lol) and can pick up your local areas, message networks and newsgroups and send / recv messages to / from phpBB. So as you can see, you can still run your BBS on Broadband just throw some of the widely used tasks "offsite" :-) Your BBS will still allow messages, doors and chat via telnet as well as QWK, Email, etc... You may also want to upgrade your bandwidth to avoid all of this entirely by means of charging a small yearly (but optional) fee for user websites. Unlimited Space (drive space is dirt cheap these days). If you have THAT many active users, this sounds feasable to me. Charge like $15/yr and if you have that many loyal and active users, I think alot of them would jump on that. -- .---------------------------------------------------------------. | [TiME WaRRiOR] aka [Dave Kelso] AIM: Twar782 | +o Malkavia BBS | | www : synchsupport.net - malkaviabbs.com - xpresit.net | | www$: josephsjewelersonline.com - preferedinsurance.com | | @: time.warrior@malkaviabbs. com | \______________________________________________________________/ --- Synchronet 3.12a-Win32 NewsLink 1.76 * Malkavia - Chicago, IL - telnet://malkaviabbs.com .