meta on aws / your alternative meta

I tried and succeeded, as an experiment, to set up a RB meta server on a amazon web service virtual system.

I chose the smallest one there is, which is ubuntu-linux + 1 virtual cpu + 512 mbyte memory + 10 gbyte disk (= 4 us $ a month)

install wine.

allow inbound 6001 tcp in security setup

run rbmeta.exe, done.

all in all, half an hour work to set it up and it worked just fine. 95 % cpu unused.

Such a VM is in the free tier, it can be run fulltime for a year without cost (for a new account ) and has a fixed DNS name.

so that is going to be the solution, for those willing to do the effort.

If I have / want to stop this unthankful self-inflicted task. Which might happen if I finally get fiber to the home.

Why am I doing this anyway ?

There is a school somewhere in the USA, with (according to the contact person) 10s of kids playing RB, using my meta.

That's why.

S!

Rens