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  • what hardware is your bbs running on?

    From pweck@23:1/101 to All on Friday, September 18, 2026 16:52:49
    old pc, raspberry pi, vm, cloud instance?
    post your setup and how its holding up..
    started on a 286, move through a few variations. ran most recently on raspberry pi, but after 2 micro sd crashes i was done lol
    pweck

    ... The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Pweck's Retreat (23:1/101)
  • From Shurato@23:1/104 to pweck on Saturday, September 26, 2026 12:06:00

    old pc, raspberry pi, vm, cloud instance?
    post your setup and how its holding up.. started on a 286, move
    through a few variations. ran most recently on raspberry pi, but
    after 2 micro sd crashes i was done lol pweck

    HP EliteDesk 800 G3. Windows 10 32 Bit for native NTVDM support!

    --
    Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, pop3,ftps,nntps
    ,wss, ssh utf-8) (default ports, 2222 for utf-8 and 999 for wss)


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    ---
    * Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere telnet://shsbbs.net (23:1/104)
  • From Michael Selhof@23:1/1 to All on Saturday, September 26, 2026 21:18:41
    This setup is here running:

    Intel I7 9700K, 64 GByte RAM, 66 TByte combination of SSD's and HDD's, Windows 11 Pro
    --- XenFido 1.7.6
    * Origin: Sysops-Finest.org · https://www.sysops-finest.org/forum · 23:1/103.0
  • From Mike Dippel@23:250/11 to Pweck on Saturday, September 26, 2026 19:24:00
    On 9/18/2026 5:52 PM, Pweck wrote to All:

    old pc, raspberry pi, vm, cloud instance?
    post your setup and how its holding up..
    started on a 286, move through a few variations. ran most recently on raspberry
    pi, but after 2 micro sd crashes i was done lol
    pweck

    ... The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Pweck's Retreat (23:1/101)

    I pay $70 a year per domain to host both of my sites remotely, One uses Windows
    Server 2012 R2, and the other runs Windows Server 2022 Standard. $140 per year and
    never a hassle over power loss problems and I get great support from the hosting
    company.

    Mike Dippel


    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v10.0gr17
    * Origin: The Hobby Line! BBS (23:250/11)
  • From pweck@23:1/1 to Mike Dippel on Saturday, September 26, 2026 22:03:43
    I pay $70 a year per domain to host both of my sites remotely, One uses Windows
    Server 2012 R2, and the other runs Windows Server 2022 Standard. $140
    per year and
    never a hassle over power loss problems and I get great support from the hosting
    company.


    ive heard about doing it remotely, i just feel not as close to everything

    pweck
    sysopnet 23:1/1
    bbs.pwecksretreat.com:2332

    ... A penny saved is not very much

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Pweck's Retreat (23:1/1)
  • From BiggieB@23:150/10 to Mike Dippel on Sunday, September 27, 2026 14:04:59
    I pay $70 a year per domain to host both of my sites remotely, One uses Windows
    Server 2012 R2, and the other runs Windows Server 2022 Standard. $140 per year and
    never a hassle over power loss problems and I get great support from the hosting
    company.

    Which hosting company are you using? I've been tempted to move my BBS up on AWS, since we use their services at my company and I'm very familiar with them and have a few systems running. Having trouble justifying the extra expense to move my BBS to the cloud. But at $70 a year it seems too good to be true. At AWS that's what it would cost, minimally, a month.
    --- SBBSecho 3.37-Win32
    * Origin: Jersey Jam BBS - JerseyJam.com (23:150/10)
  • From Mike Dippel@23:250/11 to Biggieb on Sunday, September 27, 2026 19:36:46
    On 9/27/2026 2:04 PM, Biggieb wrote to Mike Dippel:

    I pay $70 a year per domain to host both of my sites remotely, One uses Windows
    Server 2012 R2, and the other runs Windows Server 2022 Standard. $140 per year and
    never a hassle over power loss problems and I get great support from the hosting
    company.

    Which hosting company are you using? I've been tempted to move my BBS up on AWS, since we use their services at my company and I'm very familiar with them
    and have a few systems running. Having trouble justifying the extra expense to
    move my BBS to the cloud. But at $70 a year it seems too good to be true. At
    AWS that's what it would cost, minimally, a month.
    --- SBBSecho 3.37-Win32
    * Origin: Jersey Jam BBS - JerseyJam.com (23:150/10)

    DR Servers at: https://drserver.net/vps.php
    Before you order, ask for the special $70.00 discount for BBS owners.

    You may have to create a support ticket to get the deal. You would probably have to pat
    the activation fee for the OS they load onto the server, but you can find great deals
    online.

    Mike Dippel


    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v10.0gr17
    * Origin: The Hobby Line! BBS (23:250/11)
  • From SwissMaik@23:1/107 to All on Monday, September 28, 2026 06:47:34
    Mine is running on a Intel NUC i5 with 64 GB of RAM and 2 TB Disk on a
    Proxmox VE VM (2 CPU Cores, 2 GB of RAM, Debian 13 and Docker).

    Greetings Mike

    ... Press any key to continue. No, not THAT key!
    --- NullModem Reader/nmr v0.9.0

    --- NullModem BBS v0.29.0-dev
    * Origin: Maiks Place BBS (23:1/107)