Self hosted email, chat, messaging, calls is the future. Individuals will own host and run their own services for these on public clouds. There is no reason for giant corporations to own these services.
I admire your enthusiasm, but most users don’t want to think about or manage these things. Convenience and consistency of experience is the reason for giant corporations to own these services, and unless there is a compelling shift in consumer preferences, that seems unlikely to change.
Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
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Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#42Self hosted email, chat, messaging, calls is the future. Individuals will own host and run their own services for these on public clouds. There is no reason for giant corporations to own these services.
I admire your enthusiasm, but most users don’t want to think about or manage these things. Convenience and consistency of experience is the reason for giant corporations to own these services, and unless there is a compelling shift in consumer preferences, that seems unlikely to change.
Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#43Looks like this is similar to other self hosting projects like FreedomBone and NextCloud. It's great to see more tools to take back control over our data.
Similarly Cloudron.io and Sandstorm.io are very impressive and easy to use projects.
Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
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#46Self hosted email, chat, messaging, calls is the future. Individuals will own host and run their own services for these on public clouds. There is no reason for giant corporations to own these services.
Future? Self hosting was common place in the 90’s.
Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#47No RBLs? I see cullum hasn't spent any time running a mail server.
Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the problem with leaking your IP address? If you host a website or any kind of API there, your IP is public anyway?
Not if it's behind a CDN, if you were to host a website that someone might consider a DDoS target (frankly anything can be these days), then it can be wise to keep the host's true IP off the record
Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not if it's behind a CDN, if you were to host a website that someone might consider a DDoS target (frankly anything can be these days), then it can be wise to keep the host's true IP off the record
If your security is only achieved by hiding your IP I have bad news for you.