has anyone out there made a BBS on a webhosting domain you own? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VisualNoiz · 2023-06-09 23:13 I don't want to let people into my home firewall, i want to build a BBS on my namecheap linux web hosting domain, but it seems like everything I read, people are making BBSes on computers they have inside the home .. i want to make people telnet net to the web host.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- vrhelmutt · 2023-06-09 23:58 You need a VPS with Linux, install t he bbs server there and point one of the domain records to the IP address ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UM-Underminer · 2023-06-10 00:59 You CAN run a BBS on a VPS in the cloud... but WHY? Unless you're building something terribly unusual or different at that point, why not just be a user on one of the hundreds of other boards around? If you want to hands-off the system, you're not really acting as a sysop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VisualNoiz · 2023-06-10 02:47 i am selling band merchandise for a 30 year anniversary album via a door game. limited quantity available so i thought if i make people work for it by telneting to get a coupon code that makes a sale work on another website, then the stuff can sell for a few days while people figure it out instead of whoever was on the internet at the time of day the URL to buy was posted. plus it puts new millenial fans in the world of 1993 to buy merch last made in 1993 they mostly never got to experience a BBS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VisualNoiz · 2023-06-10 03:37 thanks! i'll read up on that ---------------------------------------------------------------------- vrhelmutt · 2023-06-10 03:41 Also, I could host one for you, I do micro hosting for lots of people 😉. We're talking cheap! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UM-Underminer · 2023-06-10 09:39 Interesting concept ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ahandle · 2023-06-10 10:47 Nobody did this in 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dmine45 · 2023-06-10 12:44 You can run a BBS on AWS or another VPS service. A lot of people are doing just that. Linode is one example. Vultr is another example. Microsoft web services is yet another example. So there are indeed options for both Windows and Linux users. I run my BBSes at home, but I have a good pfSense firewall running to keep out the Chinese bots. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dmine45 · 2023-06-10 12:44 Linux, Windows, or both? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VisualNoiz · 2023-06-10 13:20 My friends and I did . Every BBS around Detroit was named after something music , movie or TV related ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VisualNoiz · 2023-06-10 14:02 My friends and I did . Every BBS around Detroit was named after something music , movie or TV related ---------------------------------------------------------------------- vrhelmutt · 2023-06-10 14:16 I'd prefer the server be Linux, easier to maintain and monitor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- athen66 · 2023-06-10 14:53 I run mine on a raspberry pi https://bbs.kiwi.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- athen66 · 2023-06-10 14:53 I run mine on a raspberry pi https://bbs.kiwi.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dikkiesmalls · 2023-06-10 15:20 If you want to run synchronet there is an existing hosting service for it out there ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dperry324 · 2023-06-10 15:37 At one point in my life I took a job that took me away from home for long periods of time. I ran my BBS on a pi at home. Then one day there was a big storm that knocked out the power for a bit. But it fried my pi. There was nothing I could do about it for several weeks or months. So I created a vps and built it back up there. I have a different situation now. I live in the sticks and I have shoddy internet connectivity. My internet company can't keep me connected for more than a few days at a time. Can't run a BBS server like that. So the vps saved me again. Also, I don't much relish having my home network open to visitors. Having a pots BBS at home was still a secure arrangement when using just the phone line. Now we run so many devices on our home network that if it got compromised, we'd have lots more damage than just a BBS outage. All good reasons to run a BBS on a vps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VisualNoiz · 2023-06-10 16:29 i tried to add you to a chat but it errored out ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ahandle · 2023-06-10 16:52 Did you give away tshirts in a door game? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- a_blizzard_of_zeros · 2023-06-10 17:41 My BBS (a Mystic) is hosted on Digital Ocean; an Ubuntu Linux VPS basically. There are no challenges or issues doing this if you are running a Linux-based (or xBSD-based) package. It's not much different from running one at home. I do this for the exact reasons you mention; nothing in my network faces outward to the net and I don't feel the need to do that anymore given how cheap VPSes are. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VisualNoiz · 2023-06-11 20:45 how do you think we found each other in bowling alleys without wearing our same shirts? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ragebane · 2023-06-14 00:10 Just use AWS Lightsail. $3.50/mo should be all you need to host a BBS, hell I even think it has a free tier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebojager · 2023-06-14 01:56 Im currently trying out Synchronet's BBS hosting on a remote Linux server. It was all setup and ready to go and Im currently trying edit all the menus to make it look like a Telegard BBS. I originally thought about Digital Ocean after someone brought that up in an earlier post. Im having quite a bit of slow down while Im in the BBS and Shelling out to edit menus, and get disconnected frequently, which is making it tough to get anything done, but maybe its my firewall or something causing issues. Im so new to this kinda remote access in Linux it wouldn't surprise me if its me lol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PaulLee420 · 2023-06-14 23:59 I really like Linode.com - for as little as $5/mo, you can just point yer domain to a droplets IP address. Linode, IMO, is the best in the business and very Linux friendly. You could also use pFsense to subnet ONE local machine on your home network. People would still basically get into your network, but only on that one machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UCN_cyberstrator · 2023-06-15 20:11 go to lowendbox and find a cheap VPS for $5 to $10 a year and put it there. [https://lowendbox.com/](https://lowendbox.com/)