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Kidechaire's - interesting things to use them for?
Currently mine are running:
1x Web host 1x Email host 1x Seedbox
What else can I use them for?
I was thinking:
VPN IRC Bouncer Linux ISO Mirror OwnCloud
Anyone know any interesting self hosted apps or Open Source projects that would be fun playing with?
Thanks!
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this question again (DO/VULTR credit, unused OVH).
next time someone will ask what to do with their life
Let's see... All of mine are in a Tinc VPN mesh, running:
They are the best thing since ever. What do you do with them? -- as you can see: everything.
@rm_ - Thanks for the serious reply.
I like the idea of a Squid proxy, especially since work loves to restrict access to things...
I already run a PDNS cluster on VPS's elsewhere, so i'll skip using them for DNS for now (I would love to use them for DNS + Backup MX - but as they're all in the same DC it's not a good idea.)
@rm_ Tinc looks interesting too.
Is it just an open source alternative to something like Hamachi?
Yes like
is "just" an alternative to
@rm_ - So i'm taking that to mean its quite a bit better? In what way?
Make a mirror for a distro that don't have too much mirrors? The arm ones maybe? or arch? or the new ones that popup quite often...
Run a free streaming hosting service
ask @William if he needs a few hundreds Mbps for a projectTinc is a free software decentralized failure-resilient automatic full-mesh Layer 2 VPN daemon. It's a fine program on it's own, it doesn't need to be reduced to "just" an alternative to some proprietary POS. Do you also go around saying "GNU/Linux is just an open-source alternative to something like Windows"?
On the other hand "Hamachi" is basically a toy "vpn" for gamers to play with their school friends in games which don't have a native online mode.
As for better in which ways, one is the most important: it's free software and open source, which means its encryption implementation is public, so it can be reviewed and trusted, unlike proprietary encryption which maybe fit for games, but nothing more.
I just cancelled 1 of 2 kidechires. Currently using it as an OwnCloud server