All my customers know me by my first name, and I know them. Now that all my initial customers have been set up, I'll go back to working more on the Terms of Service Didn't Read project again.Īnother reason why I think offering managed personal server hosting is interesting, is because it's an example of direct economy: you pay me each month, and this money flows directly between two human beings. So it's not really a serious source of income at this point, but since I don't know of anybody except Pierre and me offering managed personal server hosting, I think it's an important project to spend my time on. With 20 paying and 10 non-paying users so far, I only make around 50 euros per month so far. I registered my business in the Netherlands, where I also pay taxes. You can pay via PayPal, IBAN, bitcoin, or whatever we can work out. If you have special requirements, or are interested in a particular type of software (ethereum, sandstorm, cozy, you name it), then I can also host that for you. So far, I've done tech support in English, Dutch and French, but I also speak Spanish and German. I'll help you whenever you have questions. I set everything up, after which you can use your own website just like you would use a third-party website. When you sign up for my managed personal server hosting service (which currently costs 8 euros / month), we work out together which software is best for you, and which domain name you want to use. For the rest of my customers I installed Known, WordPress, or ownCloud so far. For two others, I installed Trovebox, whose hosted service is shutting down, but which is available as free software. Today, I just finished installing Ghost for a customer. Pierre and I met in June, and have worked on setting this up since then. That's why we started the IndieHosters network. Even internet users who do or should sort of know how to do it, usually don't make it a priority to actually run a personal internet server. Most internet users know how to publish on websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, but don't know how to run their own server. UPDATE: Since writing this blogpost I moved on from working full-time in IndieHosters to working full-time for Mozilla Access to personal internet servers for the other 99% of internet users #IndieWeb Access to personal internet servers for the other 99% of internet users #IndieWeb
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