"Hosted" Talk

[thang]

Shit just got real :v

[HalfEatenPie]

Good call on this. Although a great integration I’d love would be if we can get a unified sign-in solution for all these solutions. Either through LDAP or something.

Regardless, I’d like to say I’m the resident data scientist and I host all of my scientific tools.

[WSS]

@Jarland

I want a heavy theme to run through this community and it’s this: Self-hosted applications

Shitposting is like meta-selfhosted, right?

I mean I do run many things myself, but other things I have completely lost interest into - I don’t want to host my own mail, but basic HTTP/HTTPS is perfectly fine. I’ll happily manage my own DNS, but I don’t want to trust my own monitoring system.

I also could give a flying fuck about anything that requires Java, Node, or both.

Setup a free WordPress node which gets reinstalled daily with the latest snapshot so people can randomly use it to abuse other users. TIA.

[Manish]

A nice twist to the overall theme of the community
I was about to mention Cloudron but then I saw it mentioned in the second paragraph. Cloudron is great but the free version is limited to only 2 Apps, right? YunoHost and Sandstorm are two other options.

[root]

@Jarland

Finally, I made you recognize your feelings towards me. I finally managed to reach your inner feelings, that inner part of your heart that would not expose itself, which seemed to be a stone of ice so far. The proof that a beautiful soul is melting, is that we finally get an explanation.

We don’t need to ask for explanation, we are your community (hence why you love me) and we deserve explanations without asking them. Imagine this scenario: you make a significant modification to hosted MXRoute without explaining “why”, and then you get 100 support tickets all of a sudden. Wouldn’t it have been better to simply announce the reasons right off the bat? That way all those tickets could have been avoided.

When change was made, community did not get the answer to “why” and 5 days later you provide the answer while community is boiling in it’s own juices. This is not fair; but don’t get me wrong, I personally still appreciate the melting heart. I guess there is something really beautiful and shiny underneath it all (and this time is not balls).

Love Is All You Need - Beatles

[Mason]

Uhh, mate… I get your concern, but none of this should have been a surprise to you. Maybe there could have been a “hey, we’re switching to hostedtalk in a few days instead of hostballs, get some new underwear” type of message, but it was just a name change after all. We scrapped the idea to move forums which would undoubtedly have caused even more uproar.

I’ll refer to this entire post (HostBalls 2.0) and a few quotes as explanation for the rebranding was always given up front without any secrecy –

@Jarland

So the idea was sort of a play on r/selfhosted. I wanted that mental association. It’s kind of the perfect example of a place that I’d like to see more people join from. It’s easy for us to get industry insiders, I’d like to get more people who are interested in moving away from the major SaaS players to self-hosted or alternatives, of course that’d be great for someone like you as a strong SaaS player but not one of “the big names.”

@Jarland

but are perhaps concerned the site is “missing out” on potential visitors due to name and/or platform?

That is my concern, how to get over the next hill.

@Mason

I think the name of the community (and to a lesser extent the forum software) have stunted our growth a bit. HostBalls doesn’t have a ton of name recognition and those that do recognize it is really only a byproduct of seeing it mentioned in other hosting forums. LowEndTalk, LowEndSpirit, WebHostingTalk, hell even VPSBoard all have names that an outsider would see and somewhat know what the community is all about. Someone not familiar with HB will take a look at the name and not know if they’re strolling into a porn hosting palace, a biggest balls competition, or a Chuck E. Cheese ball pit.

@Jarland

I do believe you’ve spoken. Thanks for indulging me and commenting on my wild thoughts. We’ll rebrand, but we won’t change. We’ll just be a little more approachable by those not already here, and we’ll retain the rest.

[HalfEatenPie]

That’s a bit much. I’m all for open communication but in the end, it’s just a website.

[Jarland]

@root

Imagine this scenario: you make a significant modification to hosted MXRoute without explaining “why”, and then you get 100 support tickets all of a sudden

You mean “remember this scenario”

[thagoat]

I love this bar!

[jsg]

I also could give a flying fuck about anything that requires Java, Node, or both.

Signed. FULL ACK.

[elliotc]

Hello, new forum

[root]

@Jarland - any heads-up on searx?

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[BlaZe]

@Jarland

Who knows what’ll be added later. Any requests?

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[Falzo]

there is no such thing as unseeing… trust me. just DON’T.

[Will]

I’m sad this isn’t real.

[Jarland]

Weird. I restored a backup and it came back up.

[flips]

Is Searx just a Docker container?

[Jarland]

@flips

Is Searx just a Docker container?

Yeah I have cloudron running on a server to provide a bunch of random apps. Mostly QOL type stuff.

[flips]

Fancy. Seems Cloudron pricing is more per month than most of my lowend VPS’es per year

[Jarland]

That it is. Though they update it constantly so it’s evident that the work is being done to justify it at least. I get updates to apps on it every 1-3 days it seems like.