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Google Joins the Open Source Cloud Foundry Foundation (betanews.com)
BrianFagioli quotes a report from BetaNews: Today, Google announces that it has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a gold member. This is yet another example of the search giant's open source focus. Google joins some other respected companies at this membership level, such as Verizon, GE Digital, and Huawei to name a few. For whatever reason, the search giant stopped short of committing as the highest-level platinum member, however. "From the beginning, our goal for Google Cloud Platform has been to build the most open cloud for all developers and businesses alike, and make it easy for them to build and run great software. A big part of this is being an active member of the open source community and working directly with developers where they are, whether they're at an emerging startup or a large enterprise. Today we're pleased to announce that Google has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a Gold member to further our commitment to these goals", says Brian Stevens, Vice President, Google Cloud.
Good news, Mr. AC: There are people who are doing lots of work to enable just that sort of configuration:
https://github.com/Kickball/aw...
https://turnkeylinux.org/
https://bitnami.com/
With respect to the 'business class tax', it's obnoxious to pay twice the price for internet...but business customers get better support and the option for an SLA, as well as static IP addresses. Now, I wouldn't be opposed to an 'enthusiast' tier with consumer-grade support and open ports 80/25 on a single static IP, but it's not a thing for the moment...which is why no-IP's port 80 redirect is helpful. Similarly, very few ISPs block 443, so https + reverse proxy = green pastures of self-hosting on a residential line.
"Everyone hosting a mail server" is a bad idea. Most don't know how to configure or administer one, nor have the desire to do so. The problem with e-mail as a bastion of free speech is that it requires the recipient to listen, a premise compromised at the outset. Meanwhile, the majority of e-mail sent and received today is spam, so increasing the avenues for spam just sounds like a horried idea all around. As a final point, the gatekeepers move from "who moderates Facebook" to "who decides what is and isn't spam at Spamhaus".
We need middlemen for certain things. Making technical competency a de facto requirement for exercising freedom of speech is itself an example of censoring in practice. I hate the cloud as much as you do, but there are certain people who will always need a tech person in order for their idea to be heard. There's no reason they should be required to get a server, install a LAMP stack and CMS, register a domain and configure its DNS, leave their computer on all the time, and be comfortable in tweaking a few lines in Javascript, just to interact with others about knitting.