• RE: Good reason not to run a BBS at home...

    From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Fri Oct 4 12:17:32 2024
    Re: RE: Good reason not to run a BBS at home...
    By: Digital Man to MRO on Thu Oct 03 2024 11:10 pm

    Re: RE: Good reason not to run a BBS at home...
    By: MRO to Mike on Thu Oct 03 2024 11:36 pm

    in this day and age it's just stupid to run a bbs at home.

    If you're going to run a BBS, I think runnig it from home is the more nostalic way to do it. So that what I do. I don't think it's any more stupid than running a BBS on a rented server.

    i don't play into that nostalgia stuff.
    Things are SO much different than when we were running bbses over our phone lines. There is no comparison. We are still using ansi and we still have doorgames. Everything is so much different. What we run and how we run it. The people are different. How we interact is different.

    I should have refrased my statement more carefully, though. if you are truly serving up 20+ tb of files you are essentially a content delivery source you should have the muscle and the bw to handle it, something that a dedicated server on a reputable provider can deliver.

    I wouldn't run a bbs at home anymore because I like to have it out of house, I don't want to share my connection with it. In my case i use my servers for other things as well.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to The Lizard Master on Fri Oct 4 12:18:10 2024
    Re: RE: Good reason not to run a BBS at home...
    By: The Lizard Master to Digital Man on Fri Oct 04 2024 03:32 am

    Re: RE: Good reason not to run a BBS at home...
    By: Digital Man to MRO on Thu Oct 03 2024 11:10 pm

    in this day and age it's just stupid to run a bbs at home.

    If you're going to run a BBS, I think runnig it from home is the more nostalic way to do it. So that what I do. I don't think it's any more stupid than running a BBS on a rented server.

    Yeah haha, no need to divide a community of 20 people in this manner.

    we have more people who joined?
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Mike on Fri Oct 4 12:21:35 2024
    Re: RE: Good reason not to run a BBS at home...
    By: Mike to Mro on Fri Oct 04 2024 01:06 pm

    Nope Mro

    I don't looking for a dedicated server. Maybe it's my "fault" to explain, why I'm

    oh i was talking about it and you hopped in and mentioned you looked.

    running my BBS at my home (the topic!!). It has nothing to do with "my dick is bigger"!
    Only why it is to expensive for me to go this way (external Hoster).

    yeah but it's better. and you could share the cost with friends.

    have to do or in which way I have to do my (our) hobby!!! I don't do this for others!
    I do it for myself at first! If others share this hobby with me, super. If
    "I do this for myself" are famous last words of a sysop.
    the other one is "there are no callers and I have no time for this anymore"

    Diversity
    and different opinions on a topic should simply be part of a democratic world!

    you have a right to your own opinion.
    but if you are truly serving up 22tb of files and running all these services it would be better for everyone to run it on a dedicated server with a good provider. maybe you are biting off more than you can chew. I never heard of
    your bbs or your forum so maybe it's still in its infant stage.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Mike on Fri Oct 4 12:29:41 2024
    Re: RE: Good reason not to run a BBS at home...
    By: MRO to Mike on Fri Oct 04 2024 12:21 pm


    you have a right to your own opinion.
    but if you are truly serving up 22tb of files and running all these services it would be better for everyone to run it on a dedicated server with a good provider. maybe you are biting off more than you can chew. I never heard of your bbs or your forum so maybe it's still in its infant stage.



    another thing is that i think our ability to communicate in todays age has degraded. i say these things, not because i pull them out of my ass, I have been that idiot and ran services for a lot of people at home. i've dealt with poor service providers and I've made a lot of mistakes over the decades.

    I've learned there's better ways to do things by trial and error and failing and spending and losing money.
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  • From Mike@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Mro on Sat Oct 5 02:45:38 2024
    On 04.10.2024 12:26, Mro wrote to Mike:

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    Re: RE: Good reason not to run a BBS at home...
    By: Mike to Mro on Fri Oct 04 2024 01:06 pm

    Nope Mro

    I don't looking for a dedicated server. Maybe it's my "fault" to explain, why I'm

    oh i was talking about it and you hopped in and mentioned you looked.

    Looking for something doesn't mean, that you plan to rent/buy it Mro!
    You've said, that they (Hetzner) would have cheap actions. So I looked
    on their prizes. Not more...


    running my BBS at my home (the topic!!). It has nothing to do with "my dick
    is bigger"!
    Only why it is to expensive for me to go this way (external Hoster).

    yeah but it's better. and you could share the cost with friends.

    Nobody will share any costs for that hobby. And on the other side...
    I should be my "baby".


    have to do or in which way I have to do my (our) hobby!!! I don't do this for others!
    I do it for myself at first! If others share this hobby with me, super. If
    "I do this for myself" are famous last words of a sysop.
    the other one is "there are no callers and I have no time for this anymore"

    It's ok and your decicion. For me it stays as a hobby. Other ones are going fishing
    and came back with nothing. Next time they go fishing again....

    For me it's a kind of relaxation and at the same time I enjoy getting things working
    or designing the website differently. Trying to learn things, that I've not used before!
    BBS'ing in the 2020's is different, because in the early 90's it won't exist in that way!
    Nice ex. ==> Web Design.. only one of this.... This is also something I have to learn..


    Diversity
    and different opinions on a topic should simply be part of a democratic world!

    you have a right to your own opinion.
    but if you are truly serving up 22tb of files and running all these services it
    would be better for everyone to run it on a dedicated server with a good provider. maybe you are biting off more than you can chew. I never heard of
    your bbs or your forum so maybe it's still in its infant stage.

    Thank you very much Mro, that I have the right of my own decicion! But I don't know
    if it's really better on a server from a provider! I have everything here at home and like
    it in that way (hello Rob :-) ).

    Yep.. I've made only a small promoting of my BBS forum. And I think, you've made already
    a feedback to this in April or May. And guess... not really positiv! But it's ok for me....
    I still think that the forum is a good thing to bring sysops from the various BBS's
    together again! And the forum offers all things, that Facebook/Reddit/Discord and and and
    offers, too. With one difference. It is privately operated and the data stays there!
    And it is also completely free for users. I do not pursue any financial interests.
    The topic is just important to me!

    And to the BBS. I will present a good working, good structured and good designed result
    if I promote my BBS. And I have a "finished BBS" in my brain. So if this isn't achieved in
    my opinion, there is no point in promoting it in my eyes. The same reason for not
    promoting my BBS last year, this year and maybe next year, too. Remember... I do this
    as a hobby and primarily for me.... If you believe it, or not!

    Mike


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  • From Bf2k+@VERT/TACOPRON to MRO on Sun Oct 6 22:18:34 2024
    Re: RE: Good reason not to run a BBS at home...
    By: MRO to Mike on Fri Oct 04 2024 12:21 pm

    Re: RE: Good reason not to run a BBS at home...

    I like running my BBS(es) at home. Been doing it since 1984. Of course they are very different now than they were then. Then, I only ran 1 Atari 8-bit BBS on several floppy drives (and eventually a 5 mb hard disk (wow)).

    It's my hobby and I kinda like it...

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