I wanted to run a bbs out of my dorm room and was wondering if there were any tutorials on creating a telnet bbs? Telnet becuase I dont believe the dorm has a phone line.

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Rose wrote to All <=-

I wanted to run a bbs out of my dorm room and was wondering if there
were any tutorials on creating a telnet bbs? Telnet becuase I dont
believe the dorm has a phone line.

Modern BBS packages such as Synchronet and Mystic (and others) have telnet functionality built in. Where does your Internet connectivity come from? If it's college or university, a bigger problem is you're likely behind a firewall that won't mallow outside users to telnet in. If it's an ordinary Internet connection that you pay for, the odds are more in your favour.


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I wanted to run a bbs out of my dorm room and was wondering if there were any tutorials on creating a telnet bbs? Telnet becuase I dont believe the dorm has a phone line.

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you could allways use syncrhonet

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Re: Telnet BBS
By: Rose to All on Sat Jul 22 2017 01:33 pm

I wanted to run a bbs out of my dorm room and was wondering if there were any tutorials on creating a telnet bbs? Telnet becuase I dont believe the dorm has a phone line.

are you on a WiFi connection or cable or?

a good option for you might be a VPS I ran a BBS for awhile on Vultr.com
they have servers for $2.50 a month with 512 meg mem and 20 gig SSD Hard Drive.

"... If your feet smell and your nose runs, you're built upside down."

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Denn wrote to Rose <=-

a good option for you might be a VPS I ran a BBS for awhile on
Vultr.com they have servers for $2.50 a month with 512 meg mem and 20
gig SSD Hard Drive.

That would certainly get around any network issues. :)


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Re: Telnet BBS
By: Rose to All on Sat Jul 22 2017 13:33:00

I wanted to run a bbs out of my dorm room and was wondering if there were any tutorials on creating a telnet bbs? Telnet becuase I dont believe the dorm has a phone line.

You need a access to internet
You need to open port on the router and your Computer
and install a BBS



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Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: Vk3jed to Denn on Sun Jul 23 2017 04:09 pm

a good option for you might be a VPS I ran a BBS for awhile on
Vultr.com they have servers for $2.50 a month with 512 meg mem and
20 gig SSD Hard Drive.

That would certainly get around any network issues. :)

Yes, it worked rather well for a few months.

"... Remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else."

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Re: Telnet BBS
By: Rose to All on Sat Jul 22 2017 01:33 pm

I wanted to run a bbs out of my dorm room and was wondering if there were any tutorials on creating a telnet bbs? Telnet becuase I dont believe the dorm has a phone line.

If you're only in the dorms during the school year, you might want to think about getting a cheap virtual private server and hosting a telnet BBS there.

Your dorm may have rules against running inbound servers on their network, as well as blocking mail ports.

There's lots of things a VPS would come in handy for, including setting up your own virtual private network to encrypt traffic going out of your campus network.

It'd take some work, but in the end you'll gain valuable linux admin skills in the process.

Setting this up would be beyond the scope of a BBS post, but there is a ton of information online.

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Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: Vk3jed to Denn on Sun Jul 23 2017 04:09 pm

a good option for you might be a VPS I ran a BBS for awhile on
Vultr.com they have servers for $2.50 a month with 512 meg mem and 20
gig SSD Hard Drive.

That would certainly get around any network issues. :)

Woothosting has a dual core, 1 gb memory, 20 gb SSD VPS for $18.00/year. I'm testing out a BBS install on it now.

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On 07/22/17, Rose said the following...

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I wanted to run a bbs out of my dorm room and was wondering if there
were any tutorials on creating a telnet bbs? Telnet becuase I dont
believe the dorm has a phone line.

You have a couple choices out there... 2 in particular, Synchronet and Mystic BBS.... Both are still being supported, both wiil do the trick. I am
currently running Mystic, but I am a full supporter of Synchronet....

Synchronet has a built in redirection server, run a small script and people outside of your room can access your BBS. Both BBS packages run out of the box,just hit the install button. The years and years that have gone into coding these BBS packages ahs left the SysOp little to do.

Grab Synchronet, install it, read over some of the documentation and start asking away....

If you run Synchronet, and you ant to go past the factory defaults you'll
need some understandiing of computers... text editing... if you don't mind a learning curve it's one of the best BBS packages out there.... Mystic on the other hand is menu driven, don't like one feature ... added don't like an other delete it with Mystic's config program.

I'll wait for your questions...

IB Joe
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS
Telnet to the BBS @ joesbbs.com

Re: Telnet BBS
By: Denn to Rose on Sat Jul 22 2017 20:53:34

I can provide hosting that includes full shell access, 1gb RAM, 15gb SSD storage and a full website also for $10, first month just $5... Would set you up with synchronet...

Marisa
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Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: Vk3jed to Rose on Sun Jul 23 2017 08:22 am

If it's college or university, a bigger problem is you're likely behind a firewall that won't mallow outside users to telnet in. If it's an ordinary Internet connection that you pay for, the odds are more in your favour.

Could spin up a cheap instance on digital ocean and get some ssh tunnel port forwarding magic in place. Not sure about a walkthrough tutorial for that though =) At that point, might be easier just to run the entire synchronet setup on the digital ocean droplet.

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Poindexter Fortran wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Woothosting has a dual core, 1 gb memory, 20 gb SSD VPS for
$18.00/year. I'm testing out a BBS install on it now.

Good luck. :)


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Darkwing wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Could spin up a cheap instance on digital ocean and get some ssh tunnel port forwarding magic in place. Not sure about a walkthrough tutorial for that though =) At that point, might be easier just to run the entire synchronet setup on the digital ocean droplet.

Yeah if you have to get a VPS, might as well go the whole hog and install the BBS on the VPS itself. :)


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Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: Vk3jed to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Jul 24 2017 07:25 am

Woothosting has a dual core, 1 gb memory, 20 gb SSD VPS for
$18.00/year. I'm testing out a BBS install on it now.

Good luck. :)

So far, so good. I've got Mystic running on this one and it's working well.

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Re: Telnet BBS
By: Marisag to Denn on Sun Jul 23 2017 04:47 pm

I can provide hosting that includes full shell access, 1gb RAM, 15gb SSD storage and a full website also for $10, first month just $5... Would set you up with synchronet...

Sorry, I'm not the one looking to set up a BBS, it was Rose that was looking to set up a BBS.
I pay $2.50 per month for my VPS with 512 Meg and 20 GB SSD, but I use my VPS for other things, I run my BBS at home on a 12 watt HP thin Client PC.

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Poindexter Fortran wrote to Vk3jed <=-

So far, so good. I've got Mystic running on this one and it's working well.

Cool, good to hear. :)


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Rose scribbled to All <=-

I wanted to run a bbs out of my dorm room and was wondering if there
were any tutorials on creating a telnet bbs? Telnet becuase I dont
believe the dorm has a phone line.

Most systems nowdays are telnet, a majority don't require a phone line
any more. Just do a google for it. I'm sure it's out there with the
proper question.


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Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: Poindexter Fortran to Vk3jed on Sun Jul 23 2017 08:15 am

Woothosting has a dual core, 1 gb memory, 20 gb SSD VPS for $18.00/year. I'm testing out a BBS install on it now.

I got excited about this.... that's a really good price.

But www.woothost.com/openvz-linux-vps.html says $3.50/month

Do you know something I don't know or did the price just go up recently?

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Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: Leregard to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Jul 24 2017 09:47 am

Re: Re: Telnet BBS

Woothosting has a dual core, 1 gb memory, 20 gb SSD VPS for
$18.00/year. I'm testing out a BBS install on it now.

I got excited about this.... that's a really good price.

But www.woothost.com/openvz-linux-vps.html says $3.50/month

I also looked and could not find $18 / year

"... "And we had to chisel taglines into the walls of the cave....""

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Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: Leregard to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Jul 24 2017 09:47 am

But www.woothost.com/openvz-linux-vps.html says $3.50/month

Do you know something I don't know or did the price just go up recently?

I usually check out lowendbox.com for their deals, they come and go.

https://lowendbox.com/blog/woothosting-cpanel-reseller-hosting-openvz-instances -kvm-vps-los-angeles-and-miami/

has a $14.00/year low end config from woothosting.




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Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Leregard on Mon Jul 24 2017 12:36 pm

Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: Leregard to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Jul 24 2017 09:47 am

But www.woothost.com/openvz-linux-vps.html says $3.50/month

Do you know something I don't know or did the price just go up recently?

I usually check out lowendbox.com for their deals, they come and go.

https://lowendbox.com/blog/woothosting-cpanel-reseller-hosting-openvz-instan ces -kvm-vps-los-angeles-and-miami/

has a $14.00/year low end config from woothosting.

you gotta watch out for those cheap providers. they will fuck you over. a lot of these guys buy the name and setup of a reputable guy and run it into the ground. i had an actual kid that did that and tried to fuck me over but paypal gave me my money back. i was copying my http documents over and he banned me and accused me of running a booter.

i later found out he SELLS booters for
online games. i had no idea what a booter was. i posted screenshots and then he edited my tickets and changed my text. i had originals and i dox'd him and ripped him a new one. i even called him up at home.
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Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: Mro to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jul 24 2017 05:50 pm

you gotta watch out for those cheap providers. they will fuck you over. a lot of these guys buy the name and setup of a reputable guy and run it into the ground.

If I'm spending single digits on a years' worth of VPS and have my data backed up elsewhere, I don't see how they can fuck me over.

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Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mro on Mon Jul 24 2017 06:47 pm

Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: Mro to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jul 24 2017 05:50 pm

you gotta watch out for those cheap providers. they will fuck you over. a lot of these guys buy the name and setup of a reputable guy and run it into the ground.

If I'm spending single digits on a years' worth of VPS and have my data backed up elsewhere, I don't see how they can fuck me over.

they can give you bad service, and take your money.
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Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: Mro to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jul 24 2017 11:35 pm

they can give you bad service, and take your money.

You can get bad service at a diner for about the same cost. What's the big deal?

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Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mro on Wed Jul 26 2017 05:52 pm

Re: Re: Telnet BBS
By: Mro to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jul 24 2017 11:35 pm

they can give you bad service, and take your money.

You can get bad service at a diner for about the same cost. What's the big deal?

it's better to just do it the right way instead of spending time, effort and money. that's just my experience with using budget hosts over the last 10 years or so.
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