I've actually put a lot of thought into this, particularly as we recently moved servers and it got me to thinking about the administration and scaling side of this kind of massive setup.
I would love to see a hosted Habari offering, but I'm not sure we're ready for that yet. There's still so much day-to-day flux in the SVN codebase and so much outdated / non-working stuff in the latest 0.5 release, that I think maintaining any kind of large hosted system would be too complex and time-consuming currently. Add to that a lack of themes, which should hopefully start to become less of an issue after we address some themeing concurns in 0.7, and a "rough" multi-site capability (to say the least) and it seems like we're a little too early entering the game on all sides. Personally, I think we would only be able to offer a poor showing if we were to pursue something like this at present. I would rather wait a few more versions (or possibly for a 1.0) and really knock peoples socks off then than toss out a ho-hum service now. If anyone has other ideas or opinions, please chime in... On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Benjamin Hutchins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > As many people know Wordpress has their Wordpress.com service where > you can get a free blog hosted via their free service. Where is > Habari.com (this domain is registered, it is a figure of speech)? > > I'd like to propose an attempt to start a hosting service for free > content hosting using Habari. The restrictions may have to be talked > about, so we can do so here, but I myself would be willing to host > these users. I currently have multiple servers I pay an overpriced > hosting bill for to have them hosted at my local datacenter. I have > enough resources to maintain hosting for multiple hundreds of Habari's > until I would have to even consider getting an upgrade. > > Managing all these users would be my problem though. When Habari > updates come around I would easily create a script to go in and modify > all the files and what not, but that may prove to be an issue with > custom modifications. Though I can of coarse not permit FTP/SSH access > to the blog files which would simplify this. Maybe access to the user > directory only, where they can modify plugins, themes, custom classes, > and files on their own. Meaning all System files could be replaced. > > Support would become an issue to, I would need help from the Habari > Community to give these users support. From common questions to > debugging their mess ups users would be emailing support. > > Costs might become a problem if we as a community decide to host > somewhere else for this service. As I mentioned I could host this but > that is only one suggestion, we would do things in many ways. I am new > the community but am trying to get myself involved, however there are > users who have been here for years who might think it better not to > start a service with someone who hasn't been around long, completely > understandable. > > In any case, I think a service such as this would increase the number > of Habari users quickly. Please vote if you would think this is an > idea we should talk more about or drop it now and potentially bring it > up at a later date. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
