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   Hello Daniel!   
      
   Saturday August 10 2019 23:15, you wrote to Deon George:   
      
    >   Re: Launching new BBS and conducting research   
    >   By: Deon George to Daniel on Thu Aug 08 2019 03:26 pm   
      
    >> I've recently turned off my MBSE, and am using Synchronet - my main   
    >> motivati for doing that was the active development, and features.   
    >> Email comes into my BBS (and goes out), and I get alerts when I'm   
    >> online that messages are addressed to me.   
    >>   
    > Thanks for the advice. I've learned a bit over the last few days. The   
    > computer store I purchased my old workstation no longer has retired   
    > corporate workstations on sale, they're all gone and they have no idea   
    > when they'll be doing another auction run.   
      
    > So, currently I'm thinking of building a PI rig with a 4tb drive and   
    > run the system on that. Also searching through amazon for fair priced   
    > retired workstations. My firewall is built on one. My email server is   
    > my mother-in-law's old home computer. My cloud server is possibly the   
    > last desktop I'll ever build from scratch. But I think a PI rig may be   
    > cheaper than a retired desktop.   
      
    > Anyhoo, options options. Have you heard of bbbs.net?   
      
   If you are referring PI as a raspberry Pi then I have a 3B+ running mbse as a   
   back up system.  It runs a rsync against the main server for the mbse    
   directory   
   less ./bin and a few others every 6 hours i.e., 0, 6, 12 & 18 hours.   
      
   When my main box was shutdown due to a rewire and the decorators (over 3    
   months   
   worth) I had the Pi running as it would run 24+ hours on the UPS (1000VA).   
      
   I got it really for dev work using Heirlooms Cobol compiler which on the Pi is   
   free but found a fair number of issues with it with zero response from the   
   company - so just as well that I did not buy the compiler :)   
      
   All in all the Pi has worked well which is connected to a x830 board and case   
   holding a 1Tb HDD in place of a SD card.   
      
   As and when a x830 set becomes available for the Pi 4B 4Gb Ram version I will   
   move it over - subject to testing of course!   
      
   As for bbbs it is expensive for a home system 90+ dollars which is too rich    
   for   
   my blood and retirement wallet.   
      
   mbse works well, it is still in active development at least in bug fixes and   
   minor updates as it does work well as been tested over many years.   
      
   Doors - yes you can run them but I never have - not my cup of tea but it is   
   hooked up to apache web server, ftp and  am currently playing with changing   
   the internal database over to MySQL but that is a mid term project.   
      
      
   Vince   
      
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