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The evolution of web hosting

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It wasn’t so long after that that virtual hosting companies became ubiquitous, and affordable for nonprofits. Amazon seems to be leading in the next wave of evolution of hosting – pay only for what you need, when you need it. In October I went to a presentation by Rick Clark, the Ubuntu Server Team Manager.

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Linux Desktop Migration

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

of nonprofits already use Linux server-side – either in-house, or if not, their web host usually does. Walmart was selling $200 PCs running gOS (no, that doesn’t stand for googleOS, but greenOS, based on Ubuntu 7.10,) and they sold out. A large chunk (the majority?)

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Sweet tasting dogfood…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They are going to release an open source version later this year, which is wonderful, but I also would have had to pony up another $149 for a year of a Pro account, and that seemed excessive, since I could just as easily set up a Wordpress blog on the host I’m already paying for.

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