Perhaps I'm just a grump, but when the article says "couldn't find instructions for installing WeKan on other cloud providers like Vultr or DigitalOcean" did anyone else groan a little bit.

Heroku is a cloud provider. Vultr and DigitalOcean sell virtual private servers, which are pretty much just full servers virtualized. Follow any instructions anywhere for installing a Meteor app on a linux box and there are your intructions.

I really am prepared to be downvoted for a "damn kids get off my lawn" moment ... but sheesh, it's almost as though cloud vocabulary has numbed us to what a service is actually providing.

Note: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/deploying-a...

Conversely, what is with the "how to $thing on digital ocean" articles getting upvoted here recently.

These are articles on how to install the software period, it has nothing to do with a specific provider.

Is this...

I mean this is great of course.

But is the reason it's great today because it's suddenly reasonable to think that Trello will be shut down in, say, the next 3 years?

I honestly don't know how to read the acquisition, so if somebody is a bit more familiar with the pattern, I'll really appreciate a better read.

I'm only speaking for myself here, but I've been on a bender the last few years to find as many self hosted alternatives to everything as I could.

Trello may well be ok in the long run (Atlassian's a good company), but there are so many apps that are, essentially, at the whim of the owners, VCs, etc. If I end up tying my workflow into them too much, where does it leave me if they close up shop?

As an added exercise, I've specifically been looking at alternatives that can be hosted on lightweight systems (RPi), since I don't reaaaaally trust the cloud with my data. Yes, self hosted bare metal has additional issues (mainly security), but if you can lock those down reasonably well (behind a VPN, firewall, access control, etc), then at least you maintain control over your own data and workflow.

if you don't trust the cloud with your data, you should just invest in a good server instead of RPi. The RPi is seriously underpowered and this one of those things which just fantasize about but don't get around to actually doing (reminds me of 'i would love to use linux but i use mac')

My use cases are mostly data intensive, not so much processing intensive. On the back-end, I have a pretty decent NAS and backup strategy in place. The RPi is actually quite good enough to run a few things on that I use regularly :)

Wekan on a Sandstorm.io instance

Or wekan on cloudron, i guess

Do any of them have mobile? That's the best part of trello IMO. I can take notes and stuff on the fly. Also, there's no indication Atlassian is going to change things right?

I looked for self-hosted alternatives about 2 years ago, and only Kanboard was really viable then. Great to see the selection has expanded (especially with some nice looking ones)!

Most of these are available on cloudron