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Hosting Profile: Siteground

If you are a regular reader of this blog, it may strike you as super odd for the cofounder of a web hosting company to be profiling competitors. However I think market research and understanding what others in the field are doing, their strengths and their weaknesses, is incredibly healthy

Reclaim Hosting

It's been an exciting past few days as Jim and I launched Reclaim Hosting and began building out the system to support the signups. We sat down today to talk about a bit more about it, including some of the software we're using, as well as

An Update on Reclaiming Efforts

A few weeks ago when Google announced the discontinuation of Google Reader effective July 1st what began as a moderate approach to reclaiming things here and there that were important to me was sent into a tailspin. Maybe that seems dramatic but the Reader shutdown really hits home to me

Hippie Hosting celebrates a Birthday

https://twitter.com/timmmmyboy/statuses/169823153047089153 Last week Hippie Hosting celebrated it's first birthday. A year ago I was talking with D'Arcy Norman and Dave Cormier about what it would take for a group of people to share their own server space instead of everyone paying

Building a Domain of One's Own: The Panel

In part one of this series I talked about our different hosting options for running the Domain of One's Own project. In many ways those options are no different than any major project a school might be considering whether it be a new LMS, a blogging platform like

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