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Grow Your Own Services 🌱

Lots of new people, nice to see you 🥳

If you haven't already, please check out the website at growyourown.services

The idea is to help people who aren't technical create their own online services through managed hosting, where the hosting company does the techy stuff behind the scenes.

Some particular highlights include a beginner's guide to starting your own Mastodon server:

growyourown.services/making-yo

...and starting your own Nextcloud server:

growyourown.services/beginners

6 Aug 2022 at 16:25 | Open on social.growyourown.services
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Grow Your Own Services 🌱

GYOS is aimed at non-technical people, so it focuses on managed hosting.

If you're slightly techy though, I'd highly recommend these projects. They let you add services to your VPS or home server through simple graphical interfaces:

Yunohost at @yunohost, more info at yunohost.org

Libreserver run by @bob, more info at libreserver.org

FreedomBox at @freedomboxfndn, more info at freedombox.org

6 Aug 2022 at 16:43 | Open on social.growyourown.services
irreticent

@homegrown

Has anyone tried all three? Which one did you like the most, and why? I plan on testing Yunohost later today when I get home but I was hoping for some feedback first to see which is the most popular, stable, secure, etc.?

yunohost.org​

libreserver.org​

freedombox.org​

22 Aug 2022 at 15:04 | Open on mastodon.social
Grow Your Own Services 🌱

@irreticent

I haven't tried these properly, all I can suggest is giving each a go and seeing if it fits your needs.

They should be compatible with similar hardware.

They are all under development so there's reasons to keep an eye on all three.

24 Aug 2022 at 23:41 | Open on social.growyourown.services
irreticent

@homegrown I tried YunoHost. I like it so far but haven't played with it much. When I have more time to install more apps and use them for a while I might post a more in depth review. So far it looks like a neat way for those new to self hosting to get their feet wet.

I found out about it from your post so thanks for turning me on to it!

28 Aug 2022 at 15:39 | Open on mastodon.social
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