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Martyn Lewis

Hello Im Martyn. I’m starting up hostinwales, following the models of hostinscotland (funded by the Scottish government) and hostinireland.com (industry funded). Have had some conversations with the Welsh government and a lot of data and comms providers about this but I need to get some momentum going.

I’d love to hear about web and software developments going on in Wales!

@mglewis Hi Martyn, this looks interesting. Keeping servers and economy local sound good to me.

I'm Davey - a web dev of around 8 years and co-founder of usedandloved.com
I code in Wales :) and the servers are currently hosted in germany with Hetzner.

Do you have a website where I can find out more? Is your target audience WP sites with cPanel, k8s, or anything/everything between?

And, if you don't mind me asking do you have industry experience?

Cheers 😎

@davey Thanks Davey. I have updated my profile to answer your last question.

The website hostinwales.com is up, but very basic - I'm going to completely re-work it this week. It has been on the back burner while other projects have taken precedence.

I've done a lot of work on Host in Wales, and have written a consultancy doc with input from CEOs of hostinireland and hostinscotland who have both been very encouraging.

Will post the doc on the hostinwales website for general comments.

@mglewis Cheers, I've had a read and it promising! Pleased to hear you have experience and some advice from other CEOs.

I'm solo dev on a startup, I've just fine tuned terraform on our current host. So, I can't promise much bussiness in the short term, but longer term is more likely.

Hope it goes well, and please tag me when you have an update.

@mglewis I welcome this as I see benefits when companies similar to ocloud.de can host their nextcloud/collabora/onlyoffice services in Wales - using open source software to grow a digitally independent Wales.