[colug-432] shell account hosting?

[Rick Hornsby]

Thanks for the great suggestions.

Hmm, the EC2 seems like the best short term solution.  I'm a long ways from home, so setting up something there is a longer term possibility.

I like the appliance idea. Potentially, I could also set that up to do WOL to my Macpro, which has most of my project files I'd like to access remotely but is expensive to run 24/7.

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On Jan 19, 2012, at 17:47, Scott Merrill <skippy at skippy.net> wrote:

> Or, for a one-time fee you could get a small appliance - like a
> Pogoplug - to install Linux onto, and hang it off your cable modem at
> home.
> 
> I've been using a rooted Pogoplug for screen+irssi and it works just
> fine. Low power, self-hosted, and geek cred to boot. :)
> 
> On Jan 19, 2012, at 5:44 PM, Neal Dias <roman at ensecure.org> wrote:
> 
>> This is the route I chose. Gives me all the flexibility I need/want
>> and more piece of mind than a shell account, as others said, likely as
>> economical or more so.
>> 
>> +1 on Amazon ec2.
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Michael Yanovich <yanovich.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
>>> This is also a good idea. It'd be a lot cheaper than the options I
>>> listed. (I noticed this after sending in my first e-mail)
>>> 
>>> On 01/19/2012 05:05 PM, Scott Merrill wrote:
>>>> 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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