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That sounds a little like what hosting cooperatives are doing! In France we have the CHATONS.org federation for those, in which a lot of FLOSS NGOs, unions and
by southerntofu 4y ago
That sounds a little like what hosting cooperatives are doing! In France we have the CHATONS.org federation for those, in which a lot of FLOSS NGOs, unions and other local entities take part. On an international scale, it seems like libreho.st is listing a few such providers.
These services are not a "franchise" per se, so it's not exactly the same as what you were describing.
- dsr_ 4y agoCooperatives are an excellent model, too. I assumed the original poster was thinking about starting a for-profit business.
- southerntofu 4y agoYes, i personally have more trust in a workers coop with sustainable economics, than a profit-driven company driven by a CEO or a board of directors whose incentives have good chances of being misaligned with ours as users. Webarch.coop and disroot.org could be named as two examples of well-operated hosting coops. The former is a traditional host (shared & managed hosting) operating as a workers coop, while the latter does only shared hosting as far as i know (targeting end-users more specifically).