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A Totally Free Dedicated Hosting Provider For Your FOSS Projects

FOSSHOST was a non-profit organisation, founded in 2020 (Thomas Markey as its founder and CEO), with the purpose of promoting and supporting Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects, providing Virtual Private Server (VPS) web hosting, DNS services, web storage, email and other associated services completely free of charge to everyone who had projects eligible to apply. However, the success of this initiative quickly exceeded expectations, leading its organizers to suspend applications from time to time due to projects over-subscription and in order to maintain the quality of services provided to ongoing projects until FOSSHOST systems escalation. Unfortunately, the project did end in December 2022.

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6 Open Source Alternatives to Google Analytics

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Open-source alternatives to Google Analytics offer a powerful way to reclaim data ownership and prioritize user privacy while avoiding the complexity of GA4. By moving to an open-source tool, organizations can ensure GDPR compliance by design, improve site performance with smaller tracking scripts, and ensure that their visitor data is never shared with third-party advertising networks. This article lists six free alternatives to Google Analytics based on BTW’s open source alternatives, lightweight and cookie-free self hosted applications, and some even with a plugin option for Wordpress CMS based websites like 43-art.work and more than 42% of websites world.

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What is The Open Source

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This is an article that briefly explains the difference between open source, freeware and shareware, types of software that populate the web and operating systems, that we deal with on a daily basis and that we should better understand to help us manage costs and security issues. Generally, Open Source refers to a computer program in which the source code (instructions for that program in its primitive form, in programming language) is available to the general public for the use and/or modification of its original design. Open-source code is typically a collaborative effort, an environment where the programmers involved improve the source…

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