Pulling data back
site news, technology July 26th, 2008
People have data sitting on multiple social networks, search engines indexing their mail and serving up ads based on private content, and photos shared around the world on hosting sites. Each one of them has their own privacy policy, and each one requires you to have some level of trust that they’re going to protect your information, and if they get sold, will still protect it.
I’m tempted to go back to the way I did things pre-web 2.0. Host a box on my home network, host my mail there. Host my pictures there. Run my blog from there. The only issue I have now is that my provider blocks SMTP, as a “security measure”.
It takes a lot of time to host on my own, it was nice when I was consulting. Now, I’m not so sure. There’s more to break, more to get hacked, and more downtime when it does. Hard drives go south, power supplies fail.
I’m tempted to hack a SD card onto my Linksys router and use it as an endpoint.
Danny O’Brien has a good talk about this at OpenTech.
July 27th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Your internet service provider is probably ony blocking port SMTP over 25. Try using encryption or just switch to another port manually.
July 27th, 2008 at 8:35 am
It looks like they’re blocking TCP 25 – I can’t get around it, but can smart relay to my web host on TCP 587.
The problem is with inbound SMTP. Worst case, I could leave mail at my webhost and use Fetchmail for the ultimate 2000 experience.