#known 2017-02-05
2017-02-05 UTC
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@jaduncan @edrex @lehudgins Oh man. How did you get a withknown invite? I'd kill for one. (twitter.com/_/status/828212133343092742)
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jaduncan[m] Eh heh, and my Twitter post bounces here. If there's anyone who is able to hook me up without an actual assassination being required, that would also be good.
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jeremycherfas Jaduncan Do you actually need an invite?
# jeremycherfas I guess you don’t want to host yourself.
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# jaduncan[m] An invite would be very good, because I'm about to cycle down Africa and won't have time for sysadminning. Nowhere else does absolutely fully managed hosting.
# jaduncan[m] jeremycherfas: Basically, I'm hoping to use Known to blog it all, but don't want to find out that I've been hacked. Self-hosting is thus less of an option.
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sensiblemn jaduncan[m]: have you considered reclaim hosting?
# sensiblemn they will host for you.
# jaduncan[m] I have, and I'm with them at the moment. Problems are these: they have had a lot of downtime, I have to think a lot about disk space for audio recordings, and it is merely a scripted update rather than a fully managed install. There's a lot less protection than having someone else actively manage the whole server.
# jeremycherfas I can recommend IndieHosters, if you’re willing to pay and can manage the install via gitlab or similar.
# jaduncan[m] I'd rather either just get a normal withknown account and not have to think too hard about total media storage when I'm in the back end of beyond. I didn't think they were signing people up, hence my excitement when someone had a new account.
# jeremycherfas Sorry, I don’t about their own hosted accounts.
# jaduncan[m] I'll look at IndieHosters, but I'll be in the middle of the Sahara so I'm rather hoping to find someone where I don't have to reliably have SSH/git/whatnot to sort it out.
# jaduncan[m] There's a gap in the market, I tell you.
# jaduncan[m] grins
# jeremycherfas There is. And to begin with I thought IndieHosters would be filling it. They don’t offer SSH at all, so there’s that.
# jaduncan[m] C'est la vie. Basically, I really want not to be the sysadmin. Maybe I'll have to be. But you see my excitement about the new account. :/
# jeremycherfas I do. And I totally appreciate your point of view. I went there because they offered SSL when few other hosts were making it easy. Now Dreamhost, for one, does a very simple Let’s Encrypt, so I’m actually working on moving my Known there.
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# sensiblemn why don't you use Known Pro? https://withknown.com/pro/
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# jaduncan[m] Much to my dismay, they don't actually do signups on it.
# jaduncan[m] I would love to give them money for that.
# sensiblemn you emailed them asking for an account?
# sensiblemn i'm assuming they would take your money
# jaduncan[m] Yep. I think I got their CS person rather than management though.
# jaduncan[m] They aren't doing new Known Pro signups in general, apparently.
# jaduncan[m] Hence my extreme interest in someone having a new account.
# sensiblemn oh, i thought they had only ended the free accounts, not the pro accounts.
# jaduncan[m] Oops, no. I got the co-founder. She said no new signups are happening.
# sensiblemn i think she is the CEO now
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# jaduncan[m] I've emailed her with an special-snowflake request. I'll see what can be done before looking at IndieHosters or Dreamhost. Thanks to sensiblemn and jeremycherfas for the suggestions, though.
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