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An IRC bouncer will fit nicely in the "Free tier" EC2 or GCE instances, with gobs of room to spare (even the 1GB bandwidth tier is plenty for a month of IRC bou
by Syonyk 4y ago
An IRC bouncer will fit nicely in the "Free tier" EC2 or GCE instances, with gobs of room to spare (even the 1GB bandwidth tier is plenty for a month of IRC bouncer use). I ran one in there for a long while until I moved back to my own server.
- baby 4y agoAWS didn't exist at the time I was using IRC I guess
- wyclif 4y agoThat will work for a year, right? Most free tiers expire after a year. I wish IRC would just include the bouncer functionality. It would make things a lot easier, instead of having to get a free tier and then install ZNC on it (or some other bouncer).
- bombcar 4y agoOracle offers a perpetual free tier on ARM apparently.
- Syonyk 4y agoNo, there's an "Always Free" tier, at least with GCE. https://cloud.google.com/free https://cloud.google.com/free For a ZNC bouncer, an e2 micro instance is the right option. https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier/#compute https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier/#compute 1 non-preemptible e2-micro VM instance per month in one of the following US regions... 30 GB-months standard persistent disk 5 GB-month snapshot storage in the following regions... 1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations (excluding China and Australia) per month The reason IRC can't have a bouncer capability is that you're then unbounded in terms of storage and memory requirements. IRC, as implemented, is an insanely light server to implement. I ran a college IRC network with a few dozen users on a pair of Mac SE/30s back in the 2002-2004 era - 12MB and 16MB RAM. If you want something persistent, run your own bouncer, or use Matrix or something. Message comes in, message goes out. You don't need much of any actual storage, it's mostly in the network buffers, and IRC tends pretty aggressive about killing off clients that aren't taking traffic.
- wyclif 4y agoThanks, this is great information. But I wish I didn't have to give them my credit card info.
- Syonyk 4y agoIf you go over on bandwidth, you do get billed for it. I assume the CC requirement is mostly anti-fraud. Easy(ish) to create thousands of Google accounts and abuse the free tier, harder when you can start correlating credit card numbers.
- wyclif 4y agoIt's unlikely you'd max out the bandwidth running a bouncer alone on an instance though, right?