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"plaintext": "How do I reach support? (with hosting companies I've had clients refuse to work with one because there was no phone support. That's not reasonable with a PDS yet but wanted to throw it out there for PDS hosts to think about.) "
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"plaintext": "I had already started a spreadsheet similar to what I have for hosting companies back in December 2025. This is the cleaned up and scaled down version:"
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"plaintext": "One PDS host not listed in my spreadsheet has deleted two of their previous implementations with no notice and is on to the 3rd. Two testing accounts gone because I had used their domain name and hadn't backed them up. The average person doesn't want to have to do account recovery regularly.\n"
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"plaintext": "Another PDS I created an account on didn't realize people could create an account without an invite code because of something they did for a project they are working on. Just because it's visible to the network doesn't mean they want or expected you there.\n"
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"plaintext": "Because of this, I'm NOT going to cover how to backup, create an account or move an account in this post. I think it's more important to get a bit of info out there and then also start talking about certain components."
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