Are there hosted solutions or public hosts for Gopher servers?

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

Are there hosted solutions or public hosts for Gopher servers? Is self hosting the only option these days?

I have no need for a Gopher server but I'm curious.

#gopher

[lfa@hostux.social]

@amoroso You can join SDF or one of the tildes. Many pubnixes give you gopher and/or gemini hosting.

[mdhughes@appdot.net]

@amoroso Any of the tildes (I do exist on tilde.town, but SDF and lots of others) will have a public_gopher in home dir, you can just put a gophermap file in.

But, both motsognir & gophernicus are easy to run if you have your own server.

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

@lfa SDF, right.

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

@mdhughes I've been a longtime occasional user of SDF but forgot about Gopher hosting. I'm not into self hosting.

[bonkers@nerdculture.de]

@amoroso but what's the use for Gopher today, apart from a nostalgic feeling?

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

@bonkers Experimenting with a nice simple protocol and having fun.