Where should a bbs sysop say a board is based out of if they have their board hosted with a service such as Aws? Should they say based on Aws's data center or should they say where they are based as their home location? As an example I am based in FL, but my system itself is based out of an Aws data center in VA.

Any thoughts?

Traditionally, it's where the Sysop lives, or where the local phone number is. My BBS is hosted at Linode.com, physically located in Dallas, TX. I, however, live in Wisconsin.

I do have a dialup line which is a local number for me, (but it isn't set up for mail). It just forwards calls via telnet to the BBS.


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Re: Location based question
By: Tom Moore to All on Mon Apr 29 2024 11:34 am

Where should a bbs sysop say a board is based out of if they have their board hosted with a service such as Aws?

I would say where the Sysop lives.
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On 29 Apr 24 11:34:03, Tom Moore said the following to All:

Where should a bbs sysop say a board is based out of if they have their boa hosted with a service such as Aws?

Who cares. Its the content that counts.

Nick

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