ive looked so hard, im running an eggdrop off my home box and im slowly learning. im not gonna pay 5$ a month cause i cant afford spending 60$ a year on 1 eggdrop to stay in my small room. is there any free hosting places or will someone give me an shell account to run a eggdrop for my small private room on efnet? i wanna learn to link bots and write tcl scripts but cant with 1 bot
I doubt you'll find anyone out there's who's willing to pay to give you a bot, but some people out there have hearts of gold. I doubt you could find a 'free' shell, but if you did I'd bet it would be terrible, and have pop-ups on the site, etc. The best, and probably only way, is to pay.
I live in the UK, and there's a Shell called SmartShells http://smartshells.net that I use, and I've never had problems.
Oh, you surelly will find loads of free shels out there, hell, if you stick in some of the eggdrop IRC help channels, you'll encounter tons of people coming to ask different questions about bots they are running on free shels. However, questions they ask are not really eggdrop related, but rather system related. That's because those accounts are terribly limited, hardly configurable, very strict on all sorts of rules, and finally often very laggy (which is understandable since there are plenty of users on them). What i would suggest is that you re-read your words saying 'I am not going to pay $60...'. To me it looks like - I have enough money to pay but i don't want to. If you live in a country where $60 is not a one months wage - then *do* go and buy a commercial shell account, and be happy that you don't share a fate of millions who would like to have something but cannot afford.
Ignorant and lazy people will save 30 minutes by chosing simple config file. Smart ones will save 3000 minutes of *everyone's* time by opting for complete config file.
A simple fact of life is that there's no free lunch It's sad but true, but I've looked for ages and I've found only one shell provider that will give free eggdrop supporting shells, http://titanix.net/. And even they are rather overloaded and very unreliable. I attempted to run a bot there and it was completely unable to connect to the server (though part of the problem may have been my haphazard configuration) and then my account mysteriously vanished 10 days after I got it. Most odd. My advice is to find a friend with a linux box and ask them if you can have a shell, though perhaps if you're brave titanix is worth a try.
It's sad but true, but I've looked for ages and I've found only one shell provider that will give free eggdrop supporting shells,