My current hosting setup:

• mail is hosted at FastMail
• Calendars are iCloud
• Contacts are self-hosted (Mac OS X Server)
• Website is Wordpress on Dreamhost

My costs are:

• $4/month for static IP
• $9/month for Dreamhost
• $9/month for 4 users on FastMail

Ideally I'd bring all those services in one place where I control everything. My options:

1. self-host
2. Shared hosting
3. Cheap VPS
4. Colocation
5. leave it all the same

Downsides

Self-hosting:

• if my consumer grade internet goes down then I can't...

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If I ever ran a company I would have the following policies:

• Transparent salaries
• Unlimited vacation, including a 6 month sabbatical every 4 years
• Subsidized fitness
• Personal trainer on call
• Regular nutritional consulting
• BYOD
• Free standing/walking desk
• Revenue sharing for everyone
• Open books

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Continuing in my quest to own all my data and systems, I want to figure out how to take back control of my blog.

Right now it is a WordPress site hosted at Dreamhost. Been working great for years. However, I don't really like that all the posts are a WP database in a proprietary (though published) format.

My ideal blogging system:

• all data stored in text files, preferably Markdown
• allows multiple authors
• single button/step publishing
• can write blog on all devices
• some templates to...

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Only announcing this to keep myself accountable. I'm on Twitter/RSS too much so I'm taking the rest of the month off to reset. I have one important project that I am not focussing on, so drastic steps are needed. Deleting Tweetbot, Reader, Facebook from all devices

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