[Dstar] Reflector 003 update

[Tony Langdon]

At 07:58 AM 7/16/2009, you wrote:
>Does a Dplus reflector have to be on a physical machine?
>What about finding a friendly internet host that can provide a 
>virtual server with plenty of bandwidth for minimal cost.
>Is supplying and running your own equipment taking up physical space 
>in a data centre more cost effective that having a virtual machine 
>"somewhere out there"?

The bandwidth is donated.  As for running a reflector, I have access 
to a virtual host in Oz, which I pay for, at a good rate.  I would be 
happy to host a second D-STAR reflector, which would mean there were 
two reflectors (6 channels total) available for the VK/ZL region.  I 
did enquire and make an offer some time last year, but never got a 
reply from the man himself (Robin AA4RC), not even so much as a 
"thanks, but no thanks".  My system is located in Adelaide, which 
provides some locational redundancy as well.  Hopefully, if mine ever 
goes down, the Sydney one would be up and vice versa, meaning we have 
somewhere in VK to connect to.

That's what saved the AMSAT net on Tuesday, the Echolink side is 
hosted on my Adelaide VPS.  The only IRLP access was a dedicated link 
I setup to bring the NSW South coast system into the net, as that's 
the busiest IRLP node for that net.

73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL
http://vkradio.com