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[02] WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF HAVING A JOURNAL, GALLERY, ET CETERA SDF?
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The single most important aspect of this all is that you and
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you alone own and retain all rights to your content. There are
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many commercial sites on the INTERNET these days and while they
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offer you services without taking your money, they aren't
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necessarily free. In nearly all cases you are forced to accept
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an end user agreement that releases all rights to what you put
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on their servers. You may not care about this but most SDF
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members realize that in the long term giving up rights to your
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photos, music, artwork, thoughts and ideas in exchange for
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"free hosting" will most likely be something you'll regret.
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Another aspect is that SDF allows you access to several key areas
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that the majority of commercial operations restrict:
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1) You have access to your logfile. This documents every
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request made for your URL. MOTD logfiles persist for a year
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and are rolled over on January 1st 00:00:01.
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2) You have access to your database. You can log directly into
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your database and manipulate your tables and data yourself.
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3) You have access to the framework. All software packages used
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in the MOTD membership are available to MOTD members to make
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updates, changes and fixes. Likewise, members can submit
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their own software for other members to use and collaborate
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on. The main benefit of this is the ability to quickly update
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source distributions when security flaws are discovered.
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Source distributions are kept in /sys/motd which is available from
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all systems on the SDF network. Files are versioned via the RCS.
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