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Where does federation fit in the Bonfire upcoming roadmap?

I tried to post this same content before and it went off into space somewhere. If it landed in the Bonfire campground and this is a duplicate, sorry, but i don't see my first try anywhere.

I wanted to ask about CoopCloud, which bonfirenetworks.org/docs/dep...

recommends for deployment.

But from skimming their doc, looks like they don't offer an actual cloud that I can deploy on, just some software for people to install on some other server.

Is that correct? And if so, got any recommendations for where to actually install Bonfire software?

Bonfire (link)

A federated social network for individuals and communities to design, operate and control their own digital lives.

mayel

last year

@bhaugen see docs.coopcloud.tech/operator...

While you can use any provider to get a server or VPS to use with coop-cloud, there's two mentioned in their docs (since they're more closely integrated into the tooling):

servers.coop is an initiative started by the same people as coop-cloud to setup a cooperative network of hosters, but I'm not sure how operational it is yet
hetzner is a german company that's common choice among FOSS and fediverse folks

Servers.coop (link)

Operations handbook - Co-op Cloud: Public Interest Infrastructure (link)

Bob Haugen

last year

Thanks again. How much server do you think Bonfire would need?
capsul.org/pricing

(that was from servers.coop which looks good if they are ready to go.)

Pricing - Capsul (link)

Servers.coop (link)

ivan minutillo

last year

@bhaugen we can contact coopcloud and try to test out a collaboration with them (or their coop networks) to offer premium hosting service, that would quite a cool use case... do you think the driftless group would be interested in this? (Of course no prob if they prefer to host it by themselves)

Bob Haugen

last year

As I said in that other channel, I think it's too early to count onn the Driftless group doing anything. But if not them, I have another regional group in mind.

So early days of a conversation, or maybe more than one conversation. In all of them, I am the person who wants a Driftless Bonfire site, and nobody else is there yet.