I find it funny to come across younger people who are experimenting around with running servers. I was exactly the same way when I was younger. Someone was asking to create a OpenNIC T2 server and asking if a 10 Mbps upload was good enough 😁

Unfortunately you can't sway them, they are determined to do it even if it means their connections get flooded by bots. Ya live and ya learn I guess.

@eleix tbh the speed is probably fine for a DNS server, but they’re presumably talking about a home connection and the latency is gonna kill them 😅

And yeah, bots...

@jonah Yep. I actually recommended that if they wanted to do it that they go a bit smaller and do a private OpenNIC server where they can still host the records but to ether use it for LAN resolutions or to only privately for their friends. Doesn't stop bots from querying the Internet and finding the server that way though. They even mentioned they had been DDoSed offline before so I'm not sure what they are expecting to happen here xD

@eleix hahaha fantastic. You’re right, that’s the only way to learn! Hopefully the lesson they take away is to buy a VPS 🤷‍♂️

@jonah Since now you can get a VPS with unmetered bandwidth for $5 a month (depending who you go with) it's really hard to justify running anything from home these days.

@eleix yeah honestly I’ve had pretty good success with even smaller budgets, I’ve found decent servers for like $15/year some places. Sure only 256 MB RAM or something, but more than enough for DNS, maybe some static sites. Messin’ around.

I used to get free server space for a while, sometimes I just give out servers to people myself, to pay it forward. Surprisingly few takers lately though 😅🤷‍♂️