Pjotr Prins writes: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 06:11:41PM +0000, ng0 wrote: >> > I don't think we should offer VPS (at first). But we can offer the >> > choice of using other VPS'. The VPS marked is overcrowded and very >> > competitive - I would not want to compete with that. I want to compete >> > with companies that offer hosting, but do not provide the software >> > stack. I also want people to have access to their own VPS. That is the >> > ethical part. >> >> Okay, then I do not understandand completely where you are going with this. >> For a hosted service you need a host first. Do you want to offer consulting >> work, so that this can be deployed at service (which furthermore would >> require some legal annoyance), as a service? In other words, some of us >> probably to cover the legal part with a contract at Guix Europe e.v. (if >> the registered association law in France works similar to the ones in >> Germany) >> will set up services on demand for interested people and organizations? > > 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. >
Note that that vision of building a web UI on top of a declarative system to make deploying and maintaining servers easier is what originally drew me to Guix. Still hasn't left my mind as something valuable.
