Imagine the good they could do if they didn't pay their CEO 6 million a year.

I don't have a problem with an open source project I use (and I do use F-Froid) hosting a server in a basement. I do have a problem with having the entire project hosted on one server in a basement, because it means that the entire project goes down if that basement gets flooded or the house burns down or the power goes out for an extended period of time, etc.

Having two servers in two basements not near each other would be good, having five would be better, and honestly paying money to put them in colo facilities to have more reliable power, cooling, etc. would be better still. Computer hardware is very cheap today and it doesn't cost that much money to get a substantial amount of redundancy, without being dependent on any single big company.

the _if_ is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. You're free to complain about it but Fdroid has been running fine for years and I'd rather have a volunteer manage the servers than some big corporation

I'm just reading what was written, especially "the specific components we needed", and assuming they're not as incompetent as is being suggested, given they've served me well. Perhaps you haven't been tendering for server hardware recently, even bog-standard stuff, and seen the responses that even say they can't quote a fixed price currently. At least, that's in my part of the world, in an operation buying a good deal of hardware. We also have systems over ten years old running.

> Also 4th amendment protections so no one gets access without me knowing about it.

If there's ever a need for a warrant for any of the projects, the warrant would likely involve seizure of every computer and data storage device in the home. Without a 3rd party handling billing and resource allocation they can't tell which specific device contains the relevant data, so everything goes.

So having something hosted at home comes with downsides, too. Especially if you don't control all of the data that goes into the servers on your property.

Isn't a business line quite expensive to maintain per month along with a hefty upfront cost? For a smaller team with a tight budget, just going somewhere with all of that stuff included is probably cheaper and easier like a colo DC.

> Also 4th amendment protections so no one gets access without me knowing about it

laughs in FISA

Which one of those things do you think you can't get in a datacenter?

Is it one person? Is it an organization/professional company with close ties to F-Droid? There are a lot of worst-case assumptions in this thread.

Eh. It's just a different set of trade-offs unless you start doing things super-seriously like Let's Encrypt.

With f-droid their main strength has always been replicable builds. We ideally just need to start hosting a second f-droid server somewhere else and then compare the results.