Control your own content
Honestly, if you value the content you create and put online, then you need to be in control of your own stuff.
Tags: hosting
It’s the end of the web as we know it « Adrian Short
A truly excellent article outlining the difference between share-cropping and self-hosting. It may seem that the convenience of using a third-party service outweighs the hassle of owning your own URLs but this puts everything into perspective.
Unhosted - Imagine personal data freedom…
This looks like it might be worth investigating as one potential solution to the sharecropping problem: code for decentralising your data; you allow apps to access your data but you get to decide where that data lives. Intriguing.
Why I Don’t Self-Host Anymore | romkey.com
A comprehensive look at some of the problems with taking self-hosting to its logical conclusion: running your own web server.
danah boyd | apophenia » Tumblr disappeared me…
Yet another reason to host your own content instead of sharecropping; danah boyd wakes up one morning to find her Tumblr account has been moved to a different URL.