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Re:An Apology and an Update by sftwds on Friday December 21, 2018 @10:23PM (#18738726)
We use Mattermost at my company, which works well for us and is entirely self hosted.
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Re:An Apology and an Update by SomeHacker44 on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:05PM (#18738844)
Seconded. I like controlling things myself and hosting them myself. Nobody (um, but AWS, our ISP, our DNS registrar, ARIN, oh and heck tons of others) can shut me down now.
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Re:An Apology and an Update by Crosseye_Jack on Saturday December 22, 2018 @07:49AM (#18740353)
> Nobody (um, but AWS, our ISP, our DNS registrar, ARIN, oh and heck tons of others) can shut me down now.

But in theory all of those can be replaced, a site that was recently in the news for being kicked off Godaddy, Google, tucows, Cloudflare, the Russian media watchdog, namecheap, DreamHost and a ton of others. Today its online using a Chinese based provider.

But yeah, if SV takes a disliking to you, it can be a right PITA to find some where to get back online.

But you are right, Someone somewhere has to host you and/or provide you with services (even if you self host) you are still dependant on to be able to stay online.

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