Subj : Re: Cheap Hosting...
To   : fusion
From : Tracker1
Date : Mon Mar 22 2021 06:59:16

On 3/18/2021 2:21 AM, fusion wrote:
 >> There price on VPN servers is good if you want to run a very
 >> small bbs systems. --- CNet/5
 >
 > i duno, i think it sounds kind of lame to run a bbs on a VPS ..
 > when a user goes for the 'page sysop' command you should be able
 > to break in to chat because you heard the machine beeping at you.
 >
 > even when i had dialup internet back in the day the bbs worked
 > just fine for two nodes (granted i paid my isp for a private
 > dedicated number to connect 24/7..) nowadays just about any
 > internet connection is overkill for a bbs.
 >
 > i suppose if you have crummy internet or don't have a spare pc
 > your options might be limited..
 >
 > to each their own i guess

For me it's the cost as much as anything... I had a business plan from 
my ISP for a long while, I recently went to residential, up to 1gb up, 
200mb down and it's cheaper than my business plan was.  The ~$15 or so I 
spend on the BBS VPS is less than the $180/month more that a gigabit 
business plan from my ISP would be.

Not to mention, limiting the ingress points into my home network from 
the outside world.  That and not having to worry about hardware failures 
etc is pretty nice.  I ran bare metal from 2002-2004 or so on my 
desktop, then a server at a friend's work for a couple years, then on a 
business plan in a VM on a server hosted at home... Drive going bad, 
corrupted VM and had it up/down a few times since around 2012 or so.

Now, I've spent a couple hours a week just going through messages and 
tinkering on mods.  I only keep my desktop running other than my NAS 
mostly and do have a couple rpis I could use for this.  I just like that 
it's always on with hardware I don't have to deal with.

I script all the things, and from a user PoV, it's exactly the same or 
better.
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Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
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