Subj : Re: Moving my boards to the cloud
To   : Nightfox
From : Adept
Date : Sun Jan 08 2023 12:11:59

 Ni>  Ha> I will be moving Black Flag and all my BBS's
 Ni>  Ha> to the cloud in the next few days. Will be better this way
 Ni> 
 Ni> I'm curious what made you decide to do that?  I do think there are some

Resurrecting this discussion because I wanted to talk about my own BBS.

I was living at places where I controlled the router, and was running my BBS from an old computer.

Then I moved to Germany, and tried to get my brother to keep my computer on and poke a hole in the network to allow telnet access to that one computer.

He had no interest in that. So I no longer had a BBS that was accessible, and didn't have reasonable hardware (or interest in doing the work of negotiating with others to get a router setup so I could run the BBS) with me in Germany, as I moved with what I could bring in a few bags.

So, cloud it was, and a move to Linux. Took me a couple months to accept that I couldn't use the old computer any more, and to get everything set up again.

But at this point, I prefer it. It's a virtual machine, and the hardware and setup is more controllable than it would be if I just had the machine running at my brother's place.

And, now, I _could_ set up a dedicated computer here, but aside from some sysop functions/ability to see some things in action locally, the benefits are greater having it located in a server environment rather than trying to make a server environment at home.

But another place, another time, if I owned my own home and expected to stay there for 20+ years, etc.? Yeah, probably different decisions.

And I use Vultr. It's not too expensive. Though I might go more expensive on things if/when I move more internet stuff to their servers from other places / in my head.

Anyway, I like some of the nostalgia aspect of things, so I'm all for people running BBSs at home on their own hardware. I'm still kinda tempted to try and get old BBS software running, but the amount of things that new BBS packages make easier means that I'm probably more likely to explore Synchronet, Enigma 1/2, or apam's projects than I am to try and make something old work.

But still nifty when other people head down that path. Kinda like making a Model T run. People don't do it because they want a car.

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