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On the phone with my host right now to try to fix the slowness of the site. I honestly wasn't expecting to hit the front page again.

skrowl 10y ago
If only there were some kind of HUB that people could use for their FOSS projects that provided free hosting on giant piles of bandwidth! It would be nice if it used GIT too! Man, that would be pretty sweet.
- hashkb 10y ago
  Project is not free. There is still auto scaling cloud hosting for pennies.
- 23andwalnut 10y ago
  Ha. It's actually not FOSS, so Github wouldn't be a good fit for me right now.
  - jnagro 10y ago
    so how is it self-hosted if its not open-source? (site is down right now) how is it packaged? what platforms does it run on?
    - slig 10y ago
      Just because you can host and possibly read the code, it doesn't mean that it has to be open-source. [1] [1]: https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd
    - sleepychu 10y ago
      Open-source means a lot of things, in particular this product is probably not freely available/distributable (as in beer & speech). Just because they're going to give you some source files that you could read to self host doesn't mean that the product is open source.
      - deleted 10y ago
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    - 23andwalnut 10y ago
      It runs on any server that has PHP and MySql. Even your most basic shared server will work. It's delivered as a zip. And the source is technically 'open' meaning you can modify the source code when you purchase it, but it's not free, and access to the source requires buying a license, and even then you're limited to the terms of the license. The biggest term that's different from most open source software is that you can't redistribute it.
  - kminehart 10y ago
    I don't think I'm the only one here who, if this were open source, would gladly spend time improving features or creating connectors / middleware for different apps like GitLab.
    - thedak 10y ago
      Same here. I'm immediately disinterested after finding out it's not open source. I've been looking for an OSS alternative for quite some time (CBA to write one, maybe I should start a project..)
      - mgkimsal 10y ago
        there have been dozens of open-source github-based invoicing, time tracking, pm tools. they're out there. go use one of those. don't start another one.
      - knabacks 10y ago
        Maybe one of these projects is a good fit for you. - https://github.com/taigaio https://github.com/taigaio - https://github.com/wekan/wekan https://github.com/wekan/wekan
        kminehart 10y ago
        taigia is actually _impossible_ to set up. I haven't been able to do it on a fresh 14.04 Ubuntu instance from DO after trying at least once per month. Edit: Let me rephrase. I've tried at least once a month to install taigia following their instructions and also by trying to use some 3rd party docker files. I've been met with failure every time.
  - pjc50 10y ago
    Kudos for not surrendering to the herd of storing everything on a centralised service.

skrowl 10y ago

If only there were some kind of HUB that people could use for their FOSS projects that provided free hosting on giant piles of bandwidth! It would be nice if it used GIT too! Man, that would be pretty sweet.

hashkb 10y ago
Project is not free. There is still auto scaling cloud hosting for pennies.
23andwalnut 10y ago
Ha. It's actually not FOSS, so Github wouldn't be a good fit for me right now.
- jnagro 10y ago
  so how is it self-hosted if its not open-source? (site is down right now) how is it packaged? what platforms does it run on?
  - slig 10y ago
    Just because you can host and possibly read the code, it doesn't mean that it has to be open-source. [1] [1]: https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd
  - sleepychu 10y ago
    Open-source means a lot of things, in particular this product is probably not freely available/distributable (as in beer & speech). Just because they're going to give you some source files that you could read to self host doesn't mean that the product is open source.
    - deleted 10y ago
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  - 23andwalnut 10y ago
    It runs on any server that has PHP and MySql. Even your most basic shared server will work. It's delivered as a zip. And the source is technically 'open' meaning you can modify the source code when you purchase it, but it's not free, and access to the source requires buying a license, and even then you're limited to the terms of the license. The biggest term that's different from most open source software is that you can't redistribute it.
- kminehart 10y ago
  I don't think I'm the only one here who, if this were open source, would gladly spend time improving features or creating connectors / middleware for different apps like GitLab.
  - thedak 10y ago
    Same here. I'm immediately disinterested after finding out it's not open source. I've been looking for an OSS alternative for quite some time (CBA to write one, maybe I should start a project..)
    - mgkimsal 10y ago
      there have been dozens of open-source github-based invoicing, time tracking, pm tools. they're out there. go use one of those. don't start another one.
    - knabacks 10y ago
      Maybe one of these projects is a good fit for you. - https://github.com/taigaio https://github.com/taigaio - https://github.com/wekan/wekan https://github.com/wekan/wekan
      - kminehart 10y ago
        taigia is actually _impossible_ to set up. I haven't been able to do it on a fresh 14.04 Ubuntu instance from DO after trying at least once per month. Edit: Let me rephrase. I've tried at least once a month to install taigia following their instructions and also by trying to use some 3rd party docker files. I've been met with failure every time.
- pjc50 10y ago
  Kudos for not surrendering to the herd of storing everything on a centralised service.