Hosted Lifebits is the model I’m trying to follow as much as possible. And I’ve been happy on WordPress.com without ANY of the customization or plug-ins. I see other struggle along trying to keep their servers up to date, patched, getting the Apache and PHP and MySQL configured and adjusted. I could do that, but I choose not to, and cruise along enjoying reading and commenting on others blogs. I think Mike and Jon are onto something here. Gimme a Big ol’ Dumb Server any day.
Went to IndieWebCamp this weekend, just for a little bit, mainly to listen to the keynotes and hang out with Ward Cunningham and Pete Forsyth. I love the work these people are doing, but I wanted to kick back against one myth there I see repeated over and over.
There are a whole bunch of reasons for running your own server in the age of platform capitalism, but the one I hear used the most often is “Well, you know what happens — you put all your stuff on a new service, and then they delete it on you as they go out of business!” This is followed by a list of things from Google Buzz to Bebo to Friendster that have gone away, taking your history with them.
The thing is this is primarily a first adopter problem. If you were a person in the mid-00s that joined every…
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