Nextcloud
A while ago I wrote about Owncloud, which started out as a self-hosted alternative to Dropbox, but which by now has grown to be a whole suite of apps. In the meantime, things happened. Not necessarily...
View ArticleFileRun – Probably the slickest file-management software out there
It feels like only yesterday that I wrote about Nextcloud (it was actually a few weeks ago), and today I’m already writing about yet another self-hosted file storage solutions. It’s called FileRun, and...
View ArticlePolr – a fast and modern URL shortener
If you’ve been around the web for a while, you’re probably familiar with tools that allow you to shorten URLs. They are mainly used on platforms like Twitter, where character limits and readability...
View ArticleSHW01: Cloudron
Welcome to the first episode of the Self-hosted Web Podcast! In this inaugural episode I talk about the self-hosting platform Cloudron. I was also lucky enough to speak to Johannes Zellner, one of the...
View ArticleSHW02: Nextcloud
Welcome back to the second episode! This time I’m talking about the self-hosted cloud-storage solution Nextcloud, which, with its numerous extensions is the swiss-army knife of self-hosting solutions....
View ArticleCloudron: A self-hosting platform
This is my review of Cloudron in written form, but if you’d rather hear about it, I recorded a podcast episode featuring Cloudron and one of its founders Johannes Zellner. I’ve written about quite a...
View ArticleSHW3: Mail in a box
Welcome back to episode 3 of the Selfhostedweb.org Podcast. It’s been a few months since the second episode, but my excuse is a valid one: it was summer and I went on vacation! But I’m back, and here’s...
View ArticleSHW04: Lychee (and more ways to self-host images)
Hosting images yourself is tricky business, especially considering how convenient those hosted services like Google Photos, Facebook or Instagram are. In this episode I talk about various software...
View ArticleRead books online with LibreRead
As someone who reads quite a bit, sometimes even on the computer, but isn’t always at the same computer, a self-hosted e-book reader sounds like a great idea Recently the developer of LibreRead...
View ArticleSHW5: The Big Open
Welcome back to – finally – another episode of the Selfhosted Web Podcast. This time it gets a bit more philosophical: Back in May I interviewed Kasia Odrozek, project-manager at the Mozilla...
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