Re: Idea: 'ethical hosting' [formerly mailman service (free for FOSS projects)]

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> This is one example for hosting mailman: https://www.mailmanhost.com/.
> They host it on some other VPS service.
>
> What I want to do is provide something similar with a slick web
> interface where people click on a service, say a VPS with mailman,
> configure it and launch it on a VPS hoster of their choice - we can
> offer multiple solutions on multiple hosting parties. Then the client
> has a running and configured server. We charge a fee on top of the VPS
> fee.

For the record, YunoHost develops such a Web interface that allows
people to select services to run on their machine:

  https://yunohost.org/

It’s designed to drive a Debian system, but I guess making something
similar for GuixSD would be easier.  We could have Exim, Mailman,
MediaGoblin, and all that!

> No consulting required unless something goes wrong. So we need to
> probably factor in monitoring and minimal support for paying clients.

Heh, sounds like a plan.  :-)

Thanks for the brainstorming session!

Ludo’.