Unhosted: Breaking the SaaS Monopoly
Klint Finley,
ReadWriteWeb,
Dec 28, 2010
"Unhosted," writes , "is a new project attempting to break the monopoly that SaaS providers have over users' data by seperating applications from data." As the website explains, "A website is a specific web app, hosted on a specific server farm. There is a limited number of big centralized websites, that we all connect to." So, for example, we all use Google, Flickr, Twitter, etc. "Our web has been taken hostage and monopolized. Unhosted web apps are not hosted on one specific server farm. They are freed. The once-important server farms now become commodity infrastructure, and authors of unhosted web apps liberate the user." It's a good idea. One of the reasons I write my own software and manage my own database is so I can move my website on a moment's notice (as I've had to do several times in the past). I own my data in a way that, say, a Blogger user doesn't, really. Here's the unhosted manifesto and here's the code on GitHub. Via D'Arcy Norman.
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