[wplug] VPS recommendation

[Justin Smith]

It looks like MetaARPA is a good deal if you don't need too much storage 
space, but if you're going to be running something where people can post 
pictures and other media files, I think it's best to play it safe. Still, SDF 
looks like a nice organization. I'm going to look into it more for my own use 
once I've got some free time.

You don't have to leave all your friends behind to move to an open 
platform, George. Friendica, for instance, has a “Facebook Connect” plugin 
that keeps you linked up with all of your friends who won't switch over. You 
can read their Facebook activity and make posts to Facebook just as you 
ordinarily would, but you also get all of the nifty features that Friendica 
provides!

There are plugins that support IRC chat, OpenStreetMap, other non-free 
social networks, Gravatar, and more. In fact, since Friendica seems to 
offer so much more than other platforms, I'm looking very closely at it. Its 
developer seems to have a good head on his shoulders, even if he can't 
write good documentation. Maybe that's where I come in.

>From what I can see, Diaspora is generally regarded as a flop, even by the 
people in charge. They took down their official blog and don't seem to 
have any status updates on the main page.

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*Justin S. Smith*
Vice chair/secretary, WPLUG Board of Directors
http://www.wplug.org[1] 

/"Isn't it ironic that the proprietary software developers call us 
communists? We are the ones who have provided for a free market, where 
they allow only monopoly."/
-Richard Stallman

On Wednesday, August 07, 2013 09:34:08 AM George Larson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Justin Smith <justin at js-
wordsmith.com>wrote:
> > Anyhow, all of this is nothing but wishful thinking unless I've got
> > somewhere to put it up. What would you recommend for a reasonably-
priced
> > VPS? I know we use Linode for the server, but I'm curious to see if any 
of
> > you have any better recommendations. I've already got a spare 
domain name
> > that I could use.
> 
> Can't be sure I would say *better* but SDF.org's MetaARPA membership 
offers
> VPS and, if I correctly recall, it's an investment of about $36 per year.
> [  http://sdf.org/?tutorials  ]
> 
> I'm interested, btw, in your social networking efforts.  Same time, I feel
> that these things go by mob-rule.  Something like Diaspora seems great 
for
> staying in touch with fellow geeks.  However, if I want to find my
> non-technical friends, they will be on FB (with a slow trickle toward
> Google+).  And, as those friends tell me, I will find them on FB because
> that is where their other friends are, in one big Ouroborus of popularity.
> (8
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