Public Access UNIX Systems and Resilience // 18-11-08
Finally git on SDF seems to work again the old way, i.e I can use my
normal phlogging workflow. solderpunk has a [1]couple of [2]posts on
[3]C.S about these and other issues, and ways of coping with flaky
systems or "politically questionable" administration, and I'm fully on
that side. We absolutely need to implement ways of making it easier for
all of us to change hosting or other services, to become less dependant
on providers and get back to the real idea of the internet, as I see
it: a network of equally important systems sharing data, not just fast
lanes to central hubs.
A very good point solderpunk makes is the warning to not have one
provider for several services, but rather one for each service, because
this reduces the barrier to switch if you're not happy with them. SDF
in this sense is a central point of failure for my e-mail, as I'm
running my own and also part of my family's through it, and in addition
host my father's little contact site for his office on it.
Unfortunately, I'm quite busy with other stuff and always keep on
backburner the idea of shifting e-mail elsewhere.
For my own data and sites, I'm already quite diversified: git and rsync
and own/nextcloud make it easy to sahift things around and to have
several instances everywhere. And my gopher holes are already spread
over tilde.town, grex.org, sdf.org, circumlunar.space and soon my own
little ramnode VPS. Don't get me wrong, I love all those systems, but I
still want to keep the possibility to leave anyone of them if I'm no
longer feeling fine there. And it should be like that for any service.
Take care and spread your electronic wings!
.:.
References
1.
gopher://circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/on-sdf-and-the-future-of-public-access-unix.txt
2.
gopher://circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/hey-you-host-something.txt
3.
gopher://circumlunar.space/
