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by lolinder 1050 days ago
Most of the people who are interested in WordPress or Ghost don't already have a server.

This is the classic HN Dropbox reaction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

> you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem
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withinboredom 1050 days ago
I wouldn't say it is quite that extreme. Though you do make a fair point.

(I was thinking about businesses, who usually have at least one server, somewhere.)

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lolinder 1050 days ago
No, you're right, it's not that extreme. I wrote the comparison before going back and actually finding the quote, and the quote was much worse (better?) than I remembered!
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