{"id":29,"date":"2011-06-17T16:36:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T21:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2011-06-17T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T21:36:13","slug":"my-own-tiny-fluffy-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"My own tiny, fluffy cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wpid-Photo-Jun-17-2011-318-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wpid-Photo-Jun-17-2011-318-PM.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1308346493987.8137\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"217\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In light of the imminent demise of MobileMe and iDisk, I have been doing some research to find alternatives.  I have a family account, which gave me 20GB (split among the family) along with email addresses for $99 per year.<\/p>\n<p>The best alternative I have come up with is the site you are currently viewing:  I got web hosting and a domain name from GoDaddy for about $150 for two years.  The advantage to this is that it allows me to run PHP apps and includes 25 MySql schemas.  Being a techie, this is really no problem for me to setup and configure (although it does require investing time and energy into it).<\/p>\n<p>The GoDaddy hosting also comes with the ability to install pre-configured apps, so I have setup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/\">A blog<\/a> &#8211; WordPress (hint: you&#8217;re soaking in it!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/forum\/\">A forum<\/a> &#8211; Simple Machines<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/wiki\/\">A wiki<\/a> &#8211; MediaWiki<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/cms\/\">A content management system<\/a> &#8211; Drupal<\/li>\n<li>A URL shortener &#8211; YOURLS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The URL shortener is kinda cool, check this out: <a href=\"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/u\/1\">http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/u\/1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not that any of those apps are replacements for MobileMe, but fun to play with, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The real thing I need to replace from MobileMe is the disk storage.  I hope to enable the PHP\/WebDAV extension and use it as a DropBox replacement.  Future posts will inform you about my progress.  Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the imminent demise of MobileMe and iDisk, I have been doing some research to find alternatives. I have a family account, which gave me 20GB (split among the family) along with email addresses for $99 per year. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/?p=29\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[19,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}