Hi there,

does anyone use BBS or other services with Starlink ? Is it possible to get a service running with it ?

Greetings
Goose

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Hi there,

does anyone use BBS or other services with Starlink ? Is it possible to get a service running
with it ?

One of my voip clients uses this service to run their operations in the Bahamas.
Most times with Starlink they are using cg nat.
This client was able to get a public ip to their equipment, but I do not know what the requirements / cost factors were.
Is a public ip a part of their standard offering? I don't think so, but if you get ahold of the right people for a price I'm sure you can get one.
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What's wrong with hosting the BBS on a VPS instead of paying an extra fee for a public IP?

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What's wrong with hosting the BBS on a VPS instead of paying an extra
fee for a public IP?

I believe all depends on the purpose of the board and the storage required. VPSes or minimum spec that won't cost fortune usually offer very limited storage space. If all you need is message boards and games, fine, but data hoarders most likely may require some proxy to their local NAS infrastructure by some door or other customization, I assume.

But still yeah. I'd rather open up BBS via VPS on public hosting site and channel backend traffic to additional internet sites/services, It should be easier to get anti DDOS package from VPS hoster than protecting yourself at home..

But this is just a series of assumptions by a newbie, who still more consumes than runs a board.

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What's wrong with hosting the BBS on a VPS instead of paying an extra fee for a public IP?

Nothing is wrong with this idea at all.
The poster asked if it was possible to host a bbs on the satellite connection itself so I responded to that specific request.
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I believe all depends on the purpose of the board and the storage required. VPSes or minimum spec that won't cost fortune usually offer
very limited storage space. If all you need is message boards and games, fine, but data hoarders most likely may require some proxy to their
local NAS infrastructure by some door or other customization, I assume.

I'm guessing I'm not the first to say this, but "minimum spec" seems basically _perfect_ for BBSs, since requirements are as minimal as you want them to be.

Though, yeah, I guess I do tend to want to have more files and message retention than probably people would have ever considered back in the 1980s.

But, that said, I imagine a lot of people want to play with the hardware themselves, in a way that's just not there with a VPS.

For me, VPS just makes more sense. Or at least did when my situation was unstable. But at this point, I have my BBS on a VPS, and it'd be more effort to change things again, and not really much of a point.

But if I were trying to run a BBS on 1980s hardware, obviously, no VPS option.

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Khronos wrote to Goose <=-

One of my voip clients uses this service to run their operations in the Bahamas. Most times with Starlink they are using cg nat.
This client was able to get a public ip to their equipment, but I do
not know what the requirements / cost factors were. Is a public ip a
part of their standard offering? I don't think so, but if you get ahold
of the right people for a price I'm sure you can get one.

T-Mobile and Verizon offer static IP service for their hotspots, which
usually have CGNAT. I'm sure Starlink has something similar. Otherwise,
you could use a cloudflare tunnel to get packets to the other end of
the Starlink network.




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Yes, indeed.
I wanted to offer an idea in case OP was indeed looking for an easy way to host a BBS.

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But if I were trying to run a BBS on 1980s hardware, obviously, no VPS opt

Hello Adept.
I saw an interesting project the other day on how to run an 80s BBS on emulated hardware using Vice:

https://adamwhitney.net/commodore-emulator-bbs/

Renos

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unstable. But at this point, I have my BBS on a VPS, and it'd be more effort to change things again, and not really much of a point.

I started one on VPS quite recently. I keep it disconnected and not announced as I don't want to publish anything vanilla to the public, but yeah. I think if something is about to fail, VPS is easier to test it does not.

-h1

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