Orcs.biz hosts a series of archival snapshots of MUDs from the "Golden Age of Mudding" 1991-2010 on a static website hosted on high-availability Amazon Simple Storage Service. The archives are snapshots of the sites MudBytes.net, Sourcery.org and the classic mud code repository from the early 1990s, known as FTP.Game.Org
Until 2018, Orcs.biz was a fledgling MUD hosting service serving MUDs from Orctario, CA. It hosted at its peak 7 MUs and had a cheap pricing plan as low as $1 per month or free if the account owner offered 20 hours of work per month toward general service projects.
Aside from shell access, Orcs.biz had a forum, telnet games list based on Webmudlister open source, which contributed screen captures and articles to this Wikia, an IRC network called OrcNet, and an RPGLab where new RPGs were created by skilled programmers for commercial and non-commercial goals.
Its most active games included Aadaria on port 7777, flagship OrcMUD on port 1111, Assault 3.0 Redux on port 4554 and a vanilla copy of NiMUD that one premium user installed on port 7896.
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