#indiewebcamp 2012-04-26

2012-04-26 UTC
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Loqi [http://twitter.com/Quurew] @t @mlsif #SXSW #IndieWeb ;Hollo my friend http://t.co/KUzZntUa
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barnabywalters That looks good
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aaronpk thanks
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tantek hey that's great aaronpk!
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barnabywalters I'm using openphoto for the moment — next up for my local site is to implement webhooks for whenever I upload a photo there, creating a reference on my site
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tantek (except the Sign In link at the top goes to Yahoo?!?)
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tantek barnabywalters - why not use openphoto on your own site directly?
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tantek references to an external site like that are still fragile and are not indie web
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aaronpk heh yea it's still a flickr clone, I log in to the site with my flickr account
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tantek I mean, if you're going to refer to an external site, how is that any better than referring to Flickr?
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barnabywalters flickr doesn't have webhooks. But you're right
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barnabywalters thing is, at the moment I'm on crappy shared hosting, so I can't run system stuff and do the required image manipulation
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aaronpk actually they do
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barnabywalters can't find docs anywhere
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aaronpk http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.push.subscribe.html
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barnabywalters ah, they're just not calling it 'webhooks' :)
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aaronpk yes, hosting is always a challenge
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barnabywalters I need to renew my subscription now actually, so I might change
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barnabywalters I can't really justify spending much more than I am at the mo though
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aaronpk how much is that out of curiosity?
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barnabywalters embarrassingly, about £25 a year
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barnabywalters ~$40
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aaronpk cool. I think that's a pretty common price point for people
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barnabywalters I probably should upgrade. There've been a few times now I've wanted to be able to run system level apps
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aaronpk I highly recommend Linode (http://aaron.pk/linode) if you're into system-level management
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mkowens I'd actually recommend Rackspace Cloud Servers over Linode.
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mkowens It's effectively the same cost but drastically better service from my experience.
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mkowens It doesn't have as much "pre-rolled system configs" as Linode has, though.
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aaronpk orly? I'm curious what trouble you had with linode
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barnabywalters the 1p per hour pricing model is interesting
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aaronpk well it ends up being about the same as linode, linode prorates per day instead of hour tho
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barnabywalters Comes out to around £80
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barnabywalters per year
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barnabywalters hmm
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aaronpk that particular machine only has 256mb ram which isn't going to get you very far
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barnabywalters well, more than that then. To run a personal website that no-one ever looks at, and a business portfolio that I need to move to another site (no-one ever looks at that either)
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barnabywalters how much ram would you say is required for a low-traffic site?
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aaronpk 256 is fine if you aren't running things that do a lot of processing like photos, 512 can get you prety far tho
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barnabywalters okay
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barnabywalters anyone here used http://www.cheapvps.co.uk/plans-openvz.php?
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barnabywalters I figure I could justify the cost (£80 pa) if I hosted my personal and business sites on the same machine
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