<div dir="ltr">I have been hosting stuff on the Internet since at least the early 90s. <div><br></div><div>Self hosting is a bad option (even though I run a couple of sites as a service <a href="http://hf.dstar-relay.net">http://hf.dstar-relay.net</a> and <a href="http://qso.freedv.org">http://qso.freedv.org</a>) for anything that is designed to be a long term resource to a community. There are plenty of free or nearly free options out there and they provide a ready set of tools. I quit hosting my own email, calendar, etc. servers, because Gmail (both at home and professionally) -- I have my email domains hosted -- they have great spam filters and a variety of clients.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are hosting a source code project or specification site with ongoing revisions, GitHub is the place to be right now.</div><div><br></div><div>Self hosted email lists become a real hassle when there are better solutions out there, that also can provide community support functions like databases, wikis, messaging, chat, etc. -- many are free or very inexpensive. I happen to like <a href="http://groups.io">http://groups.io</a> -- it has a clean design by people who worked on previous platforms. One cool feature is that once you create an account, you can attach your multiple email addresses to the account and send messages from any of the accounts. Also, admin is a breeze and you can have special interest sub-groups within a major group. E.g. an aprs group could have a 9600 baud interest subgroup.</div><div><br></div><div>These services take care of uptime, maintenance, and backup.</div><div><br></div><div>Contributors can spend their time creating and editing content, instead of on creating services and admin/maintenance.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><hr><div style="float:left;padding-left:1em;color:blue"><font><font>John D. Hays</font></font></div><div style="float:left;padding-left:1em;color:blue"><font><span style="color:rgb(128,128,128)"><font>K7VE</font></span></font><br><span style="color:rgb(128,128,128)"><font></font></span></div><div style="float:left;padding-left:1em;color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(128,128,128)"><br></span></div><div style="float:right;text-align:right"><font><font>PO Box 1223, Edmonds, WA 98020-1223</font></font><br><div style="padding-top:0.5em"><img src="http://k7ve.org/images/Facebook-26.png" style="font-size:12.8px"> <img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B16WvG35kZ7SUFYwZldBMmJXeWs&revid=0B16WvG35kZ7STXlkYm1oMkpHYzVxOUlxVEtXc1dqMXZhdjZFPQ" style="font-size:12.8px"> <a href="http://k7ve.org/blog" target="_blank"><img src="http://k7ve.org/images/blog-icon-box-red-26.png"></a> <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/john_hays" target="_blank"><img src="http://k7ve.org/images/Twitter-26.png"></a></div><div style="padding-top:0.5em"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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