I wonder if there would be a market out there for some kind of host-your-own system like this. Run an app on your family's central machine and register YourFamily.examplehostedapp.com. The app does the work of keeping that domain name pointed at your machine and keeping a upnp tunnel open.
One interesting question is backups. Encrypted snapshots to S3, maybe?
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I wonder if there would be a market out there for some kind of host-your-own system like this. Run an app on your family's central machine and register YourFamily.examplehostedapp.com. The app does the work of keeping that domain name pointed at your machine and keeping a upnp tunnel open.
One interesting question is backups. Encrypted snapshots to S3, maybe?
I would be part of that market if something nice was available.
I have test installed a diaspora pod as well as a libertree tree. Diaspora has its well documented issues and libertree is still bleeding edge.
who self-hosts anything in 2012?
Some people who use Tor do