self-hosting

This note talks about self-hosted software (rather than self-hosting compiler).

Self-hosting is the practice of hosting and managing software on one’s own servers. Some people consider self-hosting to mean only using one’s own hardware, though a more relaxed definition also includes managing a VPS.

Steps

• setting up new machine

Concepts

• port forwarding
• reverse proxy
  • caddy
• containerization
  • Docker
• VPN

Automation

Ansible, Puppet or Chef

Software

Authentication

• authelia

Resources

• r/SelfHosted Wiki - r/SelfHosted wiki

Find Selfhosting Applications

• Awesome-selfhosted - list of free software which can be self-hosted
• selfh.st - other site that list self-hostable software
• Yunohost Application Catalog