What is Selfhosting
Ep. 01

What is Selfhosting

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(00:24) Hosted Service Definition

  • Account you have access to: web hosting, Dropbox, email, etc.
  • “I would like an account on your service”

(01:22) Selfhosted Definition

  • VPS, Dedicated, Colo, Garage, Old Laptop you maintain.
    • often Single point of failure
    • Distribution is part of our grand experiment!

(03:00) Status of the podcast

(07:40) What tool do you find the most indispensable?

My top tools: notes and a password manager.

(08:05) KeePass - 20+ years of goodness on all platforms! Portable, encrypted, awesome.

  • Distribute your databases to better manage your services
  • People have paid me to teach them this!
  • Friends & Family approved open source!

(10:20) Hey, where is my keepass? sketch

(11:30) RSS protocol for updates & notifications.

  • The introverts “social” network dashboard
  • As good as you make it. Be patient.
  • Basis for all podcasting

(12:10) RSS Clients - use them on any device to get started.

  • RSSowl - barebones and available on Linux Windows, MacOS. Java based.
  • Newsboat - top notch terminal application. Successor to Newsbeuter.

(13:20) RSS Server applications

(16:45) Do you have recommendations for RSS compatible services? Let us know!

(17:00) feed2toot - relay you feed into the fediverse of services like Mastodon and this podcast (Castopod).

(17:20) RSS-bridge convert URL services to RSS

  • Public instances available for you to try.
  • Subscribe to Youtube, Twitter and much more

(18:15) searxng - meta-search engine that supports subscribing to results as RSS.

(18:40) Wallabag self-hosted PHP archive for web links.

  • Subscribes to RSS Feeds
  • integrates with RSS server applications mentioned above as a Sharing feature

(19:00) Archivebox is another great self-hosted archive.

(19:30) Nextcloud Bookmarks.

  • Floccus front end for Firefix, Chrome, Edge, etc. to Nextcloud Bookmarks, WebDAV, Linkwarden, Git, Google Drive by same dev.
  • Subscribe to your Bookmarks folders as RSS!
  • Share bookmarks with your other RSS services.
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