4 open source alternatives to Trello that you can self-host
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Heroku is a cloud provider. Vultr and DigitalOcean sell virtual private servers, which are pretty much just full servers virtualized. Follow any instructions anywhere for installing a Meteor app on a linux box and there are your intructions.
I really am prepared to be downvoted for a "damn kids get off my lawn" moment ... but sheesh, it's almost as though cloud vocabulary has numbed us to what a service is actually providing.
Note: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/deploying-a...
These are articles on how to install the software period, it has nothing to do with a specific provider.
I mean this is great of course.
But is the reason it's great today because it's suddenly reasonable to think that Trello will be shut down in, say, the next 3 years?
I honestly don't know how to read the acquisition, so if somebody is a bit more familiar with the pattern, I'll really appreciate a better read.
Trello may well be ok in the long run (Atlassian's a good company), but there are so many apps that are, essentially, at the whim of the owners, VCs, etc. If I end up tying my workflow into them too much, where does it leave me if they close up shop?
As an added exercise, I've specifically been looking at alternatives that can be hosted on lightweight systems (RPi), since I don't reaaaaally trust the cloud with my data. Yes, self hosted bare metal has additional issues (mainly security), but if you can lock those down reasonably well (behind a VPN, firewall, access control, etc), then at least you maintain control over your own data and workflow.