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DreamHost and the art of owning your corner of the internet
Four college friends started with a dorm-room server. Nearly three decades later, DreamHost is betting that people still want a website of their own - provided somebody makes the hard parts easier.
The Agency for the Work Everyone Knows Should Be Done
Dogwood began by helping churches keep up online. Now its 11-person Alabama team sells something broader: a staffed marketing department for organizations with more ambition than bandwidth.
Indio and the curious problem of too many customers
An RV park asked Big Rig Media to turn down its advertising. The request explains why Indio puts websites, marketing, and reservation management under the same roof.
The Hosting Company That Refuses to Put a Robot Between You and a Human
A bootstrapped host from Chicago spent 13 years betting that real humans and owned hardware beat cheap resellers and chatbots. In 2023 private equity agreed - to the tune of roughly $19 million.
NodeBB
The Toronto team behind NodeBB spent a decade rebuilding the humble internet forum for the real-time web. Now they are wiring it into the fediverse.