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/ barwen.ch provides low capacity Linux shell accounts: for $1 per \
| month, you get 500mb of storage and 500mb of data transfer. You can use |
| your account for CGI scripts, IRC bots like eggdrop, IRC bouncers |
| like ZNC, screen sessions, somewhere to ping or telnet or |
| traceroute from, ipv6, vhosts, finger, secondary DNS and MX and a bunch of |
| other stuff. |
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| You can log in with SSH or an in-browser terminal using your Google account. |
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| barwen.ch is an experimental service run by Ben Clifford of CQX Limited. |
\ Drop into #barwen.ch on irc.freenode.net or see recent channel activity. /
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Submitted by benc on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 02:34
You can now have a reserved TCP port for your account, to run a listening process such as ZNC.
This means other users on barwen.ch are not able to put their own server on the port you were previously listening, if your server processes crashes or has not started up.
To get a port assignment, email support@barwen.ch and ask for one. Your port will be somewhere in the range 512-1023.
When you have your port assignment, you'll need to start your program differently:
barwen.ch offers ZNC hosting accounts. Instead of having to configure a shell account, set up public keys, and configure ZNC from the commandline, you can request a ZNC account. Your account will be set up with ZNC built in, and you'll get told a URL and password for ZNC webadmin.
Use the regular signup page, but also email support@barwen.ch with your username, and request that your account be configured for ZNC.
Submitted by benc on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 18:43
s0.barwen.ch is now running efingerd as a finger server. Rather than display general information about a particular user, it will instead invoke .efingerd in that user's home directory and return the output. So barwen.ch users can have custom dynamically generated finger information. Note that if you finger from on s0 itself, you'll get the usual finger information unless you finger user@localhost.
For example:
Submitted by benc on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 23:56
News items off the barwen.ch front page now appear at shell login time, in the motd. Welcome, people who read the motd but never visit the barwen.ch website.
You can also get this news feed via rss.
Submitted by benc on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 12:23
Submitted by benc on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 08:22
There will be a scheduled reboot of s0.barwen.ch at 12:00 (noon) UTC on the 25th of January, 2012.
The purpose of this is to boot into a new larger virtual machine, which should allow more CPU intensive tasks such as compiling.
Submitted by benc on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 20:22
There will be a scheduled reboot and short maintenance period on s0.barwen.ch at Monday 14th November 2011, 20:00 UTC
This is the first reboot in over 3 months.
Check out @reboot in man 5 crontab to see how to get your services to start up automatically at boot. Or visit #barwen.ch on irc.freenode.net for help setting that up.
Submitted by benc on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 10:56
Well, barwen.ch was offline for almost a week - from Sunday 7th august 2011 to just now on Friday August 12th.
The data centre in Ireland where barwen.ch is hosted was hit by lightning, and the hosting provider (ec2) had subsequent problems restoring the file system.
Hopefully almost everything should be restored now, though there were some fsck errors.
I will add one week of credit onto all accounts.
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