In a Nutshell Buddypress is a WordPress based social network plugin, which is extremely easy to install and use. It’s free. As in beer. Installation: [rating=5] Price: [rating=5] Get it here: buddypress.org What it does Buddypress is a plugin for WordPress, the most popular (and free) blogging software and CMS. What does it do? It…
In a Nutshell YOURLS is a reliable, rather easy to set up, self-hosted short-URL service. It provides statistics, is open-source and free. Installation: [rating=4] Price: [rating=5] Get it here: yourls.org What it does If you’ve been around the likes of Twitter much, you’ll be familiar with so-called URL shorteners. Character constraints on Twitter have led…
Disclaimer: StatusNET is now part of GNUSocial, the below review is obsolete. Read our GNUSocial review here. In a nutshell or The TL;DR StatusNet is a full-featured self-hosted Twitter clone. But in order for it to be really useful as a replacement, it would need to be able to communicate with other instances, which currently…
App.net, a new service by the founder of imeem and picplz (two services who incidentally don’t exist anymore), wants to become the new Twitter, only without the constraints of having to pay for it with advertisements. How are they going to pay for it? By having people pay actual money for an account. Just a…
The first step in hosting your own content is to have some space to put your content on. There are thousands of companies out there which provide webspace, and there’s a whole industry of websites that cater to people who want to compare features before renting some space. Here’s one of those sites, but before…
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…
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…
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:…
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: [rating=5] Price: [rating=4] 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…
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…
