Re: Shell providers?

On Sun, 10 Mar 2024, Julius Bernotas wrote:

On 2024-03-08, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 09:46:32 -0000 (UTC), Kaz Kylheku
<433-929-6894@kylheku.com> wrote in <20240308013928.226@kylheku.com>:
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On 2024-03-08, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

We like to give customers a soft landing when turning down services.
I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for good shell providers,
places like Panix.

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That concept mostly went away 30 years ago with free Unix-like operating
systems that run on low-spec consumer hardware.

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That turns out not to be the case.
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Some shell users don't want to be system administrators.
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"bare-bones" for the users I'm thinking of.  Some of them might be able
to transition to being a system administrator, but a lot just want to
run tin, pine, mutt, irssi, tf, and so forth.

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To access some remote shell account you need a machine that is internet
connected and can run SSH. That machine can just run a freeware OS with
all the above packages.

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 ...with all the system administration that entails.
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I suppose the formal name for my request is recommendations for "managed
shell services".
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Thanks to those who responded, sdf.org and the tildeverse are great
suggestions.
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Part of your community could move to tilde.pink . There's no http, the
server runs NetBSD and there's limited disk space. But maybe that's not
an issue? More information on tilde.pink :
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gemini://tilde.pink
gopher://tilde.pink
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More information on gemini:
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https://geminiprotocol.net
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You can find us on irc in #pink . Server tilde.chat port 6697 (tls).
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Speaking of gopher and gemini, what would you need there in order to cut off the regular internet completely? And I don't count the commercial internet (banking, travelling, online shopping), but apart from those use cases, what would it take for you to shift completely onto gopher or gemini?