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Yes, it is certainly cheaper. You're paying [a very small amount] to IRCRelay for convenience and not having to worry about it. At least for my close friends,
by mitchellh 14y ago
Yes, it is certainly cheaper.
You're paying [a very small amount] to IRCRelay for convenience and not having to worry about it. At least for my close friends, they'd rather pay $5 a month than deal with setting up an EC2 instance or VPS to do this for them.
- jspthrowaway2 14y agoI'm not looking to pick a fight with you, I'm just illustrating the thought process that goes into something like this (at least, mine). To help you understand your market better. - screen and irssi is a far better experience than using a bouncer. Perhaps offer that? These services, back in the day, used to be "shell providers" for this reason. - Most developers I know run their own VPS and probably wouldn't consider a service like this. - I happily pay $20/month for my Linode wherein I do this, the big reason being I can also torrent, compile, host quick Internet stuff, do development work, receive mail, etc. Administering a personal development machine is a gateway to becoming a better hacker these days, so I think you'll find that your market ends up being miscreants who have $5 to throw away on a throwaway bouncer to cause trouble.
- klinquist 14y agoI personally prefer a bouncer to screen+irssi because I like Textual for OS X so much :). I definitely agree with your last point - the "irc types" also tend to the the "hacker types" these days. I think my micro instance was $54/yr, and like you mention, I can do a lot more with it.