I will be delivering my talk, “Steadfast Self-Hosting” on Sunday, May 5, 2024, 16:00—16:45 EDT (20:00 UTC), at the LibrePlanet 2024 conference, and I hope you’ll check it out!

LibrePlanet is a conference about software freedom, happening on May 4 & 5, 2024. The event is …

Early access to Steadfast Self-Hosting

You’re invited! Be a part of a select group of individuals with the power to make a great book excellent. This is a unique opportunity to influence the direction of the book prior to printing, publication, and general availability. I’m calling this my …

Table of contents

1. Introduction

   Welcome, copyright, prerequisites, style.

2. Background

   Reasoning, inspiration, motivation, author info, deeper meaning.

3. Your journey

   Why you should or should not self-host.

4. Practical examples

   Examples validating self-hosting.

5. Plan

   Budget, resources, schedule, transition, user support.

6. System design

   Service stack, security, operating system.

7. Implementation

   How to prepare your server …

Richard Littauer interviewed me at FOSSY 2023.

Check it out!

I’m going to write a book! Wish me luck.

I got a server running (thanks Rob!) and it has been working well for a few years now. I’m experimenting with a bunch of self-hosted services. Mostly Nextcloud, Jellyfin, and Wallabag.

Seems worth writing about.