On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Yannick <[email protected]> wrote: > > * blogging > In the same way if we plan to put some service for blogging, like a web > server e.g. Nginx+php/mysql support, with a nice tool to start your own > blog e.g. wordpress, what if your ISP provider puts you behind a NAT for > the port 80? How will people be able to read your blog? One solution is > mesh wifi, i.e. everybody being a provider. It will probably need some > engineering. >
This is exactly the problem I am working on, with PageKite ( https://pagekite.net/ ). We hope to have official Debian packages ready within the next couple of months. You touched on this and also e-mail, both of which are areas where FreedomBoxes can be assumed to need some "help" from the cloud if they are to provide self-hosted services which are backwards compatible and interoperable with today's Internet. PageKite is really, really easy to use to make a self-hosted website visible to the outside world (circumventing NAT and all that other nasty stuff), but it is so because there is a business (my company) behind it providing in-the-cloud infrastructure. I believe that for the FreedomBox to scale to thousands or millions of end users, such support businesses will need to exist, and at some point we'll want to have a discussion about what they should look like: how must companies behave in order to be "Freedom and FreedomBox compatible"? :-) Of course, some will just reject commercial involvement entirely... but not all, and I think some of those 1000s of small businesses will be providing on-line support services to FreedomBoxes, and we don't want them to become freedom inhibitors either. -- Bjarni R. Einarsson The Beanstalks Project ehf. Making personal web-pages fly: http://pagekite.net/
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