Subj : Linux and Fido
To   : Alexey Vissarionov
From : Karel Kral
Date : Tue Feb 04 2020 18:33:15

Hello Alexey!

03 Feb 20 00:01, you wrote to me:

Thank you for your reaction. Some quotes with explanations:

 KK>> Ended with Golded, Crashmail, Binkd (and Htick).
 AV> Drop out crashmail, use HPT instead.

I took htick from that project and it was nightmare. Dependency hell. (what to 
build first, then second, etc.) I will not do it again to myself.

 KK>> for 0.50 EUR/month.
 AV> Good price. Where?

It was https://old.4smart.cz/ - but in Czech. New registrations are stopped, 
guy is moving to "cloud" and prices are now higher and flat (monthly)

 AV> When you see the word "cloud", be careful: those people want to fool
 AV> you.

It is that CLI (based on Ubuntu) which I like anyway for managing Azure VM's. 
Looks like I am first one who put there Fido Point ;-) Cost is just for few MB 
related to Fido SW. I had to solve CodePage (luit), missing ARJ, DynDNS, ANSI 
term for Golded...

 AV> You pay with your data then.

There is some free throughput as well. We will see. For 2 weeks, 0 EUR.

 AV> Generally, any < 1 EUR/month VM would be more than enough for a
 AV> Fidonet node (and, if necessary, some additional functions).

But where (else)?

Karel

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