On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 01:21:36 -0400 Richard wrote: > What does "VPS" mean?
"virtual private server" - digital-ocean is among the most well-known hosts - they are rented computing resources, in the form of "un-managed" VMs, for around $5/month - they are similar to "shared web hosting"; but that the rentee manages the entire VM system over SSH, most often used for running websites or gaming servers, economically - they have small resources; but are suitable for hosting a forge - the flaw, of course, is that the VM is still running on someone else's computer; but for people who's ISP blocks ports, or has low bandwidth, these may be the best option On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 01:21:36 -0400 Richard wrote: > (I don't know what "notabug" is; is it important that I know?) notabug is a web forge service operated by a member of the peers.community - it was several participants of the peers.community collectively, who downloaded, installed, and evaluated all of those forge softwares, and compiled that table other than savannah, notabug is the only public code host that i know of, which would meet criteria A4 (all publicly hosted software must offer all four freedoms) - he does however, allow private repos without that restriction - the forge software has no mechanism to guarantee it; but he will delete anything found or reported to not be freely licensed https://peers.community/ https://notabug.org/ On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 01:21:36 -0400 Richard wrote: > Could you tell me about those two? some VPS hosts will allow the rentee to upload their own system image - im not sure which though - i think that most do not - the two VPS hosts that i know of, which explicitly offer VMs of FSDG distros, are '1984' and 'vikings' 1984 is the host which has been (very) generously hosting parabola, gratis for about 10 years - the setup interface has pre-loaded LiveISOs of parabola, pureos, and trisquel, ready for self-install, along-side other popular distros https://1984.is/ vikings is a web shop, exclusively selling computer hardware which they promise is compatible with libre distros (similar to thinkpenguin) - they also operate D16 servers, running with libreboot and _some_ libre distro, probably trisquel; and rent out server resources (such as VPS), or as dedicated machines vikings is another "friend" project of peers.community - they are also one of the 7 hardware vendors, which have been RYF certified by the FSF - i believe that the vikings services are not yet fully operational though - they have been taking pre-orders for services, for over two years now; so its not clear if they will ever get going - they would be by far, the most libre-friendly option though https://vikings.net/
