TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: linux
to: ALL
from: KAREL KRAL
date: 2020-02-02 17:29:00
subject: Linux and Fido

Hello everybody!

For a while I am trying to find the perfect (= cheapest) way to host fidonet
(not cosidering BBS, just mailer, tosser, editor and maybe fileecho gadget).

To have running OS/2 or Win/DOS machine somewhere - looks to me odd.
(do not have modem anyway)

OK, Linux then - and hosted (VPS). (can read Echo via putty, mainly via
ConnectBot)

Ended with Golded, Crashmail, Binkd (and Htick).

VPS: very depens if online presence is needed or - just time to time run VPS
and process messages. To me offline is enough (thank to my uplink).

Offline: I found KVM hosted VPS for 0.50 EUR/month. Currently playing with
Microsoft Azure Cloud (looks 0,25EUR/month).

Online: for 1 year there is for free B1S VM (plus free 64GB HDD) - also on
Microsoft Azure Subscription (= 0 EUR/month for a while)

Did somebody similar research? (any recommendation?)

Karel

--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
* Origin: Plast DATA (2:423/39)

SOURCE: echomail via QWK@docsplace.org

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.