To be clear, the $100/month is a quick estimate of the server costs for a shared community server, a personal one would easily fit on a cheap digital ocean droplet for US$5/month.
I have had a raspberry pi 2 as my local server running Bob and a few other things (gitlab, droppy and some custom server things I made) for a few years without any trouble. On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 11:05:17 AM UTC+1 Jed Carty wrote: > Hello all, > > The short version: I have a potential replacement for tiddlyspot that > could be distributed and self-hosted on something small like a digital > ocean droplet. My computer died and help getting a new one would greatly > speed up the development and release. > I think that a community managed public server is a good idea, and it is > designed so that you can create your own private server. > > The long version: > I made a server that works with Bob and TiddlyWiki that adds a secure > token-based login that is appropriate for having a web-facing server. I > have been working on this periodically for a while, some of you may have > seen it when I had Ooktech.xyz up. I have been working on it periodically > for a long time and it is very close to ready for public release. > > The problem is that an adorable kitten decided that dancing on my > multiprise was a good idea and after some impressive sparks the computer I > do my development on is dead. The kitten is fine and acts adorably innocent. > > The server has all the features of Bob (multiple wikis, everything > configured from within the wiki itself, support for multiple simultaneous > users), as well as a secure login using JWT (json web tokens). Accounts > have granular permissions which can be set, there many but here is a quick > incomplete description of what you can do, in no real order. Server > administrators can enable or disable almost all of these features if they > are not useful for your purposes. > > - A simple script to run that sets everything up > - Publicly viewable or private wikis > - Allow specific people to view or edit a wiki > - If an account owns a wiki they can set permissions on their own wikis > - optional quotas for accounts both in terms of number of wikis and storage > - A plugin library built into the server > - Access controls for plugins as well (so plugins can be used to > distribute content > without making it public) > - Simple 1-click download for wikis as a single-file without Bob > - profiles/accounts and wikis can be set as private so on one can see them > - Create an account on the server from a wiki > - update passwords and other account information from inside a wiki > - accounts can have some 'about me' information, if they want to set it > - Set if an account can create wikis > - namespaces wikis (if I create a wiki called MyWiki it would be > inmysocks/MyWiki) so > that there are no naming conflicts > - change ownership of a wiki (give a wiki to someone else) > - inter-wiki federation, like chat and sharing tiddlers between wikis > > There are many other details about administrator controls, but those are I > think the highlights for using the server. Almost all of that is > implemented, I am in the process of adding usable in-wiki interfaces for > all of it. > The setup script is only currently for linux and osx, I would need someone > who is familiar with windows to make that if anyone wants it. Hosting > online is generally linux so I am not sure how much it would be needed. > > My plan is to put up a demo site as soon as I can that has limited > life-time accounts to show the features. You could create an account that > lasts a day and after the account and wikis with it are removed. > > I am not interested in hosting and running this myself, it would be a > community with community governance supported by donations. I do not know > the demands that would be put on it, but I don't think that the hosting > costs would be more than about $100/month. > I would of course continue updating the server, but maintenance and > operation must be a group effort so we don't get a situation like > tiddlyspot where we rely on two people who may not be active members of the > community and we have no way to shift ownership for continued operation. > > I don't know what interest there is in this, so I am going to gauge that > from the response to this post. Also, help with getting a development > computer would speed things up a lot. > > A link to the amazon wishilst for the computer components: > https://www.amazon.fr/hz/wishlist/ls/2WM0S9VV3LJR1?ref_=wl_share > > ps: > > There are a lot of future features that I am working on, like the ability > to search multiple wikis from one wiki, inter-server federation so you can > have your own private server and interact with other servers, having a > login on one server that lets you access wikis on other servers, things > like that. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/aae34e8b-c074-494a-ba04-d2e668e3823dn%40googlegroups.com.
