Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 7:30 PM John Lines wrote:
> I have been thinking about how to offer alternatives to Facebook, WhatsApp, Zoom etc for non-technical people, many of whom are finding the Internet and computers much more central to their lives than they did before the pandemic.
This idea reminds me of Sandstorm, which aims to be a platform for
making it easy for non-technical folks to deploy and run web
applications. Nextcloud also comes to mind.
https://sandstorm.io/
https://nextcloud.com/
My main concern is who will be the sysadmins for such hosting (both
the physical machines and the operating system etc) and how will they
be motivated to continue doing that for the lifetime of the group? A
volunteer will eventually get bored and wander off at a critical
moment, leading to security problems, data loss or complete loss of
the service. Most groups won't have the money to hire a sysadmin.
There aren't many sustainable SaaS businesses that provide sysadmin
services by offering hosted FLOSS web applications at a price. Those
that do exist are mostly focussed around a limited number of projects.
Perhaps eventually AWS could do something like this, but they seem to
mainly be focussed on providing infrastructure to technical folks
rather than to consumers.
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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