[colug-432] shell account hosting?

[Scott Merrill]

Why not set up an Amazon EC2 instance? The lowest tier is essentially
free for a year, as long as your usage is low.

On Jan 19, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'm currently in a venue that is blocking outbound traffic on 6667, which is preventing us from using the chatroom for the radio show we're hosting from the location.  I tried getting around it by using a SOCKS5 proxy through my shell account on dream host, but apparently the IRC server blocks inbound connections from dreamhost ("proxy abuse").  The IRC server is hosted by a third party, so I can't make any configuration changes to the server itself.
>
> I've been looking around for the last few minutes for a shell account I could pay for, but all I'm finding is "free" aka "doesn't work", is extremely limited, or is advertising as "great for botnets" type stuff.  Obviously, not what I'm looking for.
>
> Are there any reputable places to find such a thing?  I don't mind paying for it, but the price can't be excessive.
>
> thanks guys
> -rick
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