Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : tenser
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Apr 06 2022 18:03:17

  Re: Re: SSH on BBSes
  By: tenser to boraxman on Thu Apr 07 2022 02:53 am

 > It seems that a lot of BBSes are hosted on VPSes provided by
 > cloud providers.  Surely these are susceptible to the same sort
 > of hosting issues you mention above.  Similarly, at least one
 > of the more popular BBS packages is closed-source; users are
 > at the whim of its author.
 > 

BBS may be hosted on random VPS, but the point is that it is easy to pack your
toys and move them elsewhere if your VPS goes crazy or censorful for whatever
reason. You can run many modern BBS packages in commodity operating systems.

This is in heavy contrast with massive applications which are tailored to the
computing platform they run on, using AWS exclusive facilities or whatever. If
you are kicked of one of those you will have to re-engineer your application.
It is not as easy to move a mega-application like Parler from a provider with
which it is tightly integrated as it is for somebody to tar -czf your BBS
bundle and move it somewhere else.

Besides, whether the BBS bundle is propietary is not much of a concenr as long
as the communication protocols are open. When the protocol is open the tech can
be rebuilt. It is of course great that there are FOSS packages ready to go and
those make management easier.

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