Early access to Steadfast Self-Hosting¶

The beta is now full and closed to new participants. Thank you for your interest. Original invite text preserved for posterity, below.

You’re invited! Be a part of a select group of individuals with the power to make a great book excellent. This is …

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 …

I talked about my book at SeaGL 2023.

Similar to FOSSY, I felt great about it and audience feedback was positive.

Richard Littauer interviewed me at FOSSY 2023.

Check it out!

I talked about my book at FOSSY 2023.

I felt great about it and audience feedback was positive.

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.