[ale] Lower cost hosting for ALE

[Simba]

I'd volunteer to help administer a forum, which is to say deploying
updates, configuration and such, but not interested in moderating. I did
that years ago and it wasn't fun.

In addition to my recommendation of hosting on digital ocean we could
also use Vultr which is $3.50/mo for their sandbox plan, would probably
be suitable for this group.

Simba Lion - https://tailpuff.net
https://keybase.io/simbalion

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On 12/19/18 11:44 AM, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale wrote:
> I ran that one.  It went for weeks on end with no activity.  A lot of
> people signed up initially, including one person who had long since been
> booted from here for constant off topic posts.  It eventually just
> became him talking in an echo chamber with an occasional response.  It
> came a time when I needed to restore the backup after a problem, and I
> raised the question of whether we should continue it as-is, do something
> different, etc...and there wasn't much input or interest.  After a lot
> of inactivity, I just let it quietly die.
> If anyone has interest in something like that again, I'll be glad to
> host it, or a PHPBB forum, as has been suggested.  I'm just NOT signing
> up for moderator duty to mediate arguments.
> Allen B.
> 
> On 12/19/18 10:27 AM, William Bagwell via Ale wrote:
>> For two years we had another place. Not to bitch and moan, but to chat
>> off
>> topic. Worked great for the small subset of this list who were there.
>> 2013 - 2015 tech-chat at linuxmoose.com Not sure who was running it or
>> why it
>> died?
>>
>> William
>>
>> On Wednesday 19 December 2018, Jerald Sheets via Ale wrote:
>>> snips
>>> I’ve said for years there needs to be “another place”™ where people can
>>> bitch and moan at each other while the main ALE list is moderated and
>>> policed, and have been shot down each time in favor of maintaining the
>>> status-quo cesspool.  If we can’t act like grown ups, expect to be
>>> treated
>>> like little kids.  My 5 year old knows better… why don’t some of the
>>> “adults” on this list?
>>>
>>>
>>> Whatever happens, MANY THANKS to Jim for all his hard work over the
>>> years.
>>>
>>> cheers.
>>>
>>> —jms
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