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<!DOCTYPE HTML>
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<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 25 March 2009), see www.w3.org">
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<title>Unhosted</title>
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<a class="right" href="http://www.unhosted.org"><img src="img/flyer/island-website.png" alt="Unhosted Logo" title="Unhosted Logo"></a>
<h1>The Unhosted Project</h1>
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>A little over a year ago the <a href="http://www.unhosted.org">Unhosted</a> project was started. The goal of the <a href="http://www.unhosted.org">Unhosted</a> project is to give users back control over their data stored at their favorite web applications. Popular web applications like <span class="name">Google Docs</span>, <span class="name">Facebook</span> and <span class="name">Flickr</span> store user data on their servers. Web applications have a number of benefits compared to applications running on the desktop like for instance <span class="name">Microsoft Office</span>:</p>
<ul>
<li>You can access the application anywhere, e.g. on holidays while using your smart phone;</li>
<li>The application provider may take care of creating backups of your data;</li>
<li>No maintenance of the application on the client required, always the latest version through the web.</li>
</ul>
<p>Unfortunately they also have a number of drawbacks:</p>
<ul>
<li>The application provider has unlimited access to your, possibly corporate or research, data;</li>
<li>The user is locked into the application, i.e.: there usually is not a way to extract all your data from the application and use it with a different application;</li>
<li>The application provider may revoke access to your account depending on their Terms of Service without giving you back your data;</li>
<li>There is no way for anyone to make sure the program does (only) what is advertized.</li>
</ul>
<p>There is also a drawback for web application developers:</p>
<ul>
<li>It can be very expensive to operate a popular application on the web, i.e: lots of servers, bandwidth and maintenance of infrastructure may be required;</li>
</ul>
<p>The <a href="http://www.unhosted.org">Unhosted</a> project aims at resolving these drawbacks using open web standards while maintaining the benefits of web applications.</p>
<h2>How does it work?</h2>
<p>In <span class="name">Web 2.0</span>, and also <span class="name">Web 1.0</span> applications, the user controls only the browser. The web application and the data are under the control of the application provider as shown in <span class="name">Figure 1</span>.</p>
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<a href="img/flyer/unhosted_web20.txt"><img class="arch" width="504" height="108" src="img/flyer/unhosted_web20.png" alt="Web 2.0" title="Web 2.0"></a> <span class="caption"><span class="name">Figure 1</span>: Web applications, <span class="name">Web 2.0</span>.</span>
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<p>In order to improve this, <a href="http://www.unhosted.org">Unhosted</a> externalizes the data from the application as shown in <span class="name">Figure 2</span>.</p>
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<a href="img/flyer/unhosted_arch.txt"><img class="arch" width="396" height="180" src="img/flyer/unhosted_arch.png" alt="Unhosted Architecture" title="Unhosted Architecture"></a> <span class="caption"><span class="name">Figure 2</span>: Web applications, <a href="http://www.unhosted.org">Unhosted</a>.</span>
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<p>Now the browser is in charge of managing the communication between the application and the data, giving the user the ability to select a data storage provider they trust, or even operate one themself.</p>
<h2>Available Applications</h2><a href="http://libredocs.org"><img class="left" src="img/flyer/libredocs.png" alt="Libre Docs" title="Libre Docs"></a> <a href="http://5apps.com"><img class="right fiveapps" src="img/flyer/5apps.png" alt="5apps" title="5apps"></a>
<p>Currently one application - <a href="http://libredocs.org">Libre Docs</a> - is available that is suited for demonstration purposes. <a href="http://libredocs.org">Libre Docs</a> is based on <a href="https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite">EtherPad Lite</a> and can be used to collaboratively work on documents located at the storage of one of the participants.</p>
<p>More applications are currently being developed for deployment through the <a href="http://5apps.com">5apps</a> project.</p>
<h2>Data Storage Providers</h2><a href="http://www.surfnet.nl"><img class="left" src="img/flyer/surfnet.gif" alt="SURFnet" title="SURFnet"></a> <a href="http://www.owncube.com"><img class="right" src="img/flyer/owncube.png" alt="OwnCube" title="OwnCube"></a>
<p>In the near future all students and researchers in The Netherlands will be able to use <a href="http://www.unhosted.org">Unhosted</a> applications with storage provided through <a href="http://www.surfnet.nl">SURFnet</a> and <a href="http://www.sara.nl">SARA</a>. The storage will be connected to <a href="http://www.surfconext.nl">SURFconext</a>, allowing every student and researcher access to their storage using their institutional account. Also, a commercial storage provider supporting <a href="http://www.unhosted.org">Unhosted</a> applications, <a href="http://www.owncube.com">OwnCube</a> is available.</p>
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<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/nl/88x31.png"></a><br>
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This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Netherlands License</a>.
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