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I've been self-hosted since 1999, but made an exception for public source code repos I put on Gitorious. I do not like the idea of moving to GitLab.com though since that runs their Enterprise Edition which is not free software. This has motivated me to change how I've been doing things so that the rug can't be pulled out from under me again. Now to start evaluating self-hosting options and get the transition completed before the end of May.
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Maybe a more p2p-like flow for git code would be beneficial, if there were a frontend for it
veleiro at 2015-03-03T21:17:34Z
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@davexunit A site you don't own that makes a promise to never shut down? I'm not sure that's actually possible, or would be believable if it were claimed. The better question: How can self-hosting be made easier to understand and set up? Guix might be helpful in that area.
Jason Self at 2015-03-03T23:41:53Z
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I like self hosting, and have been doing more and more of it. But its harder to be a minimalist when you have your whole online presence self-hosted.
Not to mention the attachment of your home IP to all of your things (yes you can fix that, but not all services work well when rerouting your traffic).
I like the idea of a p2p solution that has your data everywhere, but broke up and encrypted. Freenet but widely distributed and used. I think maidsafe has the idea, but another cryptocurrency? At some point, someone needs to combine all of these ideas. Encrypted meshnet, with p2p wide-distributed data and a decentralized dns.
Then we'd have to worry less about getting around ISPs for self-hosting, censorship, or some third party selling off their services that contains your repositories. Fully trustless.
Not to mention the attachment of your home IP to all of your things (yes you can fix that, but not all services work well when rerouting your traffic).
I like the idea of a p2p solution that has your data everywhere, but broke up and encrypted. Freenet but widely distributed and used. I think maidsafe has the idea, but another cryptocurrency? At some point, someone needs to combine all of these ideas. Encrypted meshnet, with p2p wide-distributed data and a decentralized dns.
Then we'd have to worry less about getting around ISPs for self-hosting, censorship, or some third party selling off their services that contains your repositories. Fully trustless.
veleiro at 2015-03-04T18:35:03Z
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The other approach, which is what liw and I did with Branchable, is make it so that if the provider shuts down, all users are guaranteed to already have all the data and source code needed to switch to either self hosting or a different provider.
Git makes that so doable..