If I was hosting it on my box in UnReal Servers' corporate data center, I promise I'm not going to complain about people trying to break into SSH. If it got on my nerves, I would just take the time to fix it myself.
Kclug would get its own isolated VM with its own dedicated public v4 and v6 ips with reverse dns and unlimited transfer donated by UnReal in exchange for an UnReal Servers banner ad. Im not asking for any recognition myself for using my physical hardware. But I'd like at least one other lug member to mirror it via nightly rsync or other means to another host we all can ssh to, whether or not we round robin DNS.
I want to know that if my physical host goes up in smoke, nobody needs to wait for me to fix it because someone else has a copy of what it looked like 5 minutes before the smoke came out.
Can anyone else provide a VM specific to kclug in another commercial setting with a public commercial IP?
On Thu, Feb 5, 2026, 16:31 Jonathan Hutchins [email protected] wrote:
We have several offers to host the static pages. That's not hard, any of us with a broadband connection could do it. That does leave us with a single point of failure if we lose the person providing it. The same goes with the system being as close to a box-stock Debian server - if the maintainer vanishes that's a lot easier for a new person to understand and recover.
We do need the ability to send email via smtp, and that needs to come from a commercial, not residential address.
There may also be an issue with the volume of malicious connection attempts, I don't know if that would be significant to a provider.
It would also be nice to have a local provider, just to promote the concept of a Kansas City site/service. With that setup we could easily host a podcast with archives as well.
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