Hello and welcome to the self-hosted web. What is this all about? Well, while it is as easy as supplying an email-address and a password in order to start sharing your texts, images or videos, it’s become increasingly difficult to find solutions which let you host your own content. Basically, the self-hosted web is an…
WordPress
If you’ve been around the Internet for a while, chances are you’ve run across WordPress. It’s one of the oldest and by now probably the most widely used blogging software. Their open-source, self-hosted version is downloadable at WordPress.org, for a couple of years now they have been offering free hosted blogs at WordPress.com (which we…
Mint website analytics
It might come as a surprise, but there exist in fact a few website analytics tools apart from Google Analytics. One of these is Mint. Mint is a tool by Shaun Inman (who’s also responsible for Fever, which is reviewed here). Mint is of course self-hosted and before I start praising its simplicity, a fair warning:…
Fever Feedreader
In a Nutshell Fever is a self-hosted feed reader with a unique approach. It’s easy to install and doesn’t need much maintenance. It’s not free but relatively inexpensive. Installation: Price: What it’s all about It’s 2012 and the death of RSS has been claimed time and time again, but still, it’s everywhere. In case you…
Owncloud
UPDATE: This post is quite old and somewhat outdated. The Owncloud project was forked into Nextcloud, which I wrote about here. In a Nutshell Owncloud is a very easy to install, free and self-hosted cloud-storage service. It’s extendable and rather feature-complete. Due to its open-source nature, non-paying customers can only rely on the community for…