Subj : Linux and Fido
To   : Karel Kral
From : Kai Richter
Date : Mon Feb 03 2020 01:40:40

Hello Karel!

02 Feb 20, Karel Kral wrote to All:

 KK> For a while I am trying to find the perfect (= cheapest) way to host
 KK> fidonet (not cosidering BBS, just mailer, tosser, editor

Which environment does exist already? Do you have a permanent internet 
connection available?

 KK> (do not have modem anyway)

Wow. No DSL-Modem? No Cablemodem? But with hardwired IP connection why do you 
need a cloud server??

 KK> VPS: very depens if online presence is needed or - just time to time
 KK> run VPS and process messages. To me offline is enough (thank to my
 KK> uplink).

Your node is listed with the CM flag, indicating crashmail capabilities and 
accepting mail 24h a day. See nodelist:

;S     The following flags define special operating conditions:
;S               Flag      Meaning
;S               CM        Node accepts mail 24 hours a day

Running that node offline is annoying behavior. The minimum requirement for a 
node is accepting netmail in the zone mail hour. There are nodelistflags if you 
need to accept mails outside the official ZMH. Normally the NC should help the 
nodes to find the correct nodelist flags. If you can't stay online please 
consider changing to a point AKA. Points do not need to be online or accept 
incoming calls, they just poll to get the new mail from their uplink node and 
that's it.

 KK> Offline: I found KVM hosted VPS for 0.50 EUR/month. Currently playing
 KK> with Microsoft Azure Cloud (looks 0,25EUR/month).

If it's cheap you are the product. Why don't you get a raspberry pi and setup 
your point on that? Should work with raspian or FreeBSD. You keep control over 
your system and data.

 KK>  (any recommendation?)

See above, get a point number.

Regards

Kai

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