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.