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Self-Hosting

Last Update: 5/04/2020

One of my ongoing side-projects is my quest to self-host (along with Andrew at ScientificPineapple.com) many of the services I use on a daily basis. Andrew and I rent a server off of DigitalOcean which we use for many such services. Most of this software is partially or fully open source, and often free of charge as well. Some of the software I regularly use:

ScientificPineapple.com

Nextcloud: Used for file sharing, document editing, file syncing, calendaring, and to-do lists
Bitwarden: Password manager (with premium paid features)
Website via Apache: thorjhanson.com and scientificpineapple.com hosted from here
Wireguard: VPN software
GitLab: Full git interface with project management and CI/CD tools
Mumble: Group voice chat; useful for gaming
Synapse: Matrix homeserver implementation for IM/chat.

Using these services, I try to minimize how much I allow companies to mine my personal data and exploit that data for their own purposes.

In the future, I may discuss some of the administration techniques I use, as well as some of the challenges faced with these individual pieces of software.