Self Hosted

Being the app data privacy freak that I’ve become, I thought I’d dive briefly into why I’m self-hosting, and what I’m self-hosting. I started off with TinyTinyRSS, the first app I hosted myself, in about 2010 because I didn’t really want to use someone else’s server (the Dev’s), and I had just started my journey into renting servers. The term “cloud” was still trying to work its way into everyday language. ...

I’m a self-hosted enthusiast. I try to self-host everything. I really don’t like the idea of Mega-Corps owning, farming and selling my data. Fuck that. When I began this journey more than 15 years ago, I started with RSS. The first app I ever self-hosted was TinyTinyRss. Since then, I’ve hosted more than 100 apps either to use or to test. As of today I host over 30 apps that I use on a daily basis, all to prevent some big-ass tech company from harvesting my data. ...