Subj : Moving my boards to the cloud
To   : niter3
From : apam
Date : Thu Dec 08 2022 11:26:05

 > Who are you guys hosting your bbs with?

I used to use vultr for my BBS, but have since moved it to a PC at home. I
still use vultr for talismanbbs.com.

In the past I've used digital ocean, and even longer ago linode. I prefer
vultr as they allowed customers to install from an uploaded iso (as well
as the default list of OSes). Digital Ocean is about the same price wise,
though I think linode was a bit more expensive last time i checked.

If you want windows it's extra because of the license fee and
requirements, but vultr starts at $5US a month (actually $2.50 a month
but you only get ipv6 address) $5US gives you 20Gb SSD, 1Gb of ram and 1
core. Which is more than enough to run a BBS on.

Also you pay by the minute (I think, possibly seconds) so at the end of a
month you get a bill for $5 if you use it the whole month, if you only
use it for part, you only pay for what you used. (I think that's fairly
standard for VPS providers though).

Hope that helps.

Andrew


--- Talisman v0.46-dev (Windows/x64)
 * Origin: Smuggler's Cove - Private BBS (21:1/182)

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