I will be moving Black Flag and all my BBS's
to the cloud in the next few days. Will be better this way
I'll keep you posted mates.
Cheers - Hawk
I will be moving Black Flag and all my BBS's
to the cloud in the next few days. Will be better this way
I'm curious what made you decide to do that? I do think there are some
I'm curious what made you decide to do that? I do think there are
some
The reasons I decided to do it is not having to worry about hardware (housing it somewhere, powering it, maintaining it). Then there is the security that the server is no where on my personal network at home at all. The uptime is more secure. As I am protected again power outages and ISP outages which happen more often then from a data center. Additionally, my entire server image is backed up daily without me having to do anything. So easy to recover if something was to happen to the server.
I wonder how they do their daily backups? I imagine it would be best to power down the machine to do the backup (which means some downtime
daily). Also, if backups are daily, what if they do a backup when it's
in a bad state? Normally, backups should be in a good working
The reasons I decided to do it is not having to worry about hardware (housing it somewhere, powering it, maintaining it). Then there is th security that the server is no where on my personal network at home a all. The uptime is more secure. As I am protected again power outages ISP outages which happen more often then from a data center. Addition my entire server image is backed up daily without me having to do anything. So easy to recover if something was to happen to the server
There are definitely some benefits there.
I wonder how they do their daily backups? I imagine it would be best to power down the machine to do the backup (which means some downtime
daily). Also, if backups are daily, what if they do a backup when it's
in a bad state? Normally, backups should be in a good working configuration so that if something goes wrong, you know you can always revert back to a good working backup.
Since the system is virtualized, you basically snapshot it
by marking its storage device copy-on-write and stream the
image somewhere. Assuming the guest OS has a working
filesystem that doesn't commit an unrecoverable state to
secondary store, you _should_ be able to bring the system
back online with a self-consistent filesystem; whether you
lose data or not is a different matter, which kind of
addresses the second part: roll to an earlier snapshot if
the one you try to recover to is bad.
Who are you guys hosting your bbs with?
Have you seen prices less then $5 a month? and more ?
Who are you guys hosting your bbs with?
I used to use vultr for my BBS, but have since moved it to a PC at home.
I still use vultr for talismanbbs.com.
In the past I've used digital ocean, and even longer ago linode. I prefer vultr as they allowed customers to install from an uploaded iso (as well as the default list of OSes). Digital Ocean is about the same price wise, though I think linode was a bit more expensive last time i checked.
If you want windows it's extra because of the license fee and requirements, but vultr starts at $5US a month (actually $2.50 a month
but you only get ipv6 address) $5US gives you 20Gb SSD, 1Gb of ram and 1 core. Which is more than enough to run a BBS on.
Also you pay by the minute (I think, possibly seconds) so at the end of a month you get a bill for $5 if you use it the whole month, if you only
use it for part, you only pay for what you used. (I think that's fairly standard for VPS providers though).
Hope that helps.
Have you seen prices less then $5 a month? and more ?
Who are you guys hosting your bbs with?
In the past I've used digital ocean, and even longer ago linode. I prefer vultr as they allowed customers to install from an uploaded iso (as well as the default list of OSes). Digital Ocean is about the same price wise, though I think linode was a bit more expensive last time i checked.
Who are you guys hosting your bbs with?
I've used DigitalOcean for all manner of things and that's where my BBS stuff lives as well. They aren't the cheapest but they're excellent.
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Hawk wrote to All <=-
I will be moving Black Flag and all my BBS's
to the cloud in the next few days. Will be better this way
I'll keep you posted mates.
I will be moving Black Flag and all my BBS's
to the cloud in the next few days. Will be better this way
I'll keep you posted mates.
Cheers - Hawk
Have you seen prices less then $5 a month? and more ?
Yes, you choose the size of your instance, and it varies in price
depending on the size.
If you mean less that $5 a month for a 1Gb VPS, no I haven't.
I used to use vultr for my BBS, but have since moved it to a PC at home.
I still use vultr for talismanbbs.com.
Have you seen prices less then $5 a month? and more ?
| Sysop: | Chris Crash |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huntington Beach, CA. |
| Users: | 578 |
| Nodes: | 8 (0 / 8) |
| Uptime: | 00:53:55 |
| Calls: | 10,736 |
| Files: | 5 |
| Messages: | 443,425 |