I have a website and email server through namecheap. I'm very happy with
their service. Recently, though, I switched over to Trisquel and along with
that Icecat. Now the Namecheap website won't function completely unless I
approve a bunch of nonfree js, which I don't want to do.
I once built a VPS and managed my own website and email server, but my email
was constantly being abused by spam accounts. I don't fully understand how it
happened. But when I chatted with people on IRC I got scolded for running my
own email server if I didn't know what I was doing, because I was
contributing to the spam problem.
I would love to run all of that stuff on my home computer, but there's two
main things stopping me.
#1 Is I simply haven't got the bandwidth to pull it off.
#2 I'm afraid of exposing the rest of my computer which is relatively secure
because I'm running a webserver, etc. that I really haven't got the skills to
keep secure, especially when you allow third parties to contribute content
and comments on my blog, etc.
I hope that someday in the future there will be new and easy ways to put up
websites, ways that are decentralized and secure and as easy enough for
grandma to do.
I'm already very hopful about Bitmessage. I can't wait for the day that it's
in the Trisquel repo. That, to me, seems like an amazing way for individuals
to easily engage in safe and ethical email. Now we just need something for
blogs.
