Rapid-Rise Personal Cloud
The German translation is available for purchase in ebook and paperback . Happy new year! The $10 ebook bundle price includes beautifully formatted EPUB , A4 PDF , and HTML versions of the book. The English version now uses the same pricing. If you want the ebook and cannot afford it, contact me …
Ebook readers rejoice: we just got several recent typesetting improvements thanks to Georger including centering captions and conforming the table of contents across formats. I am grateful for Georger’s patches. This is exactly why I used FOSS licensing. The book is an evergreen work, ever growing and evolving. In …
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📬 If you want to stay in touch, join my mailing list . Imagine the sound of me cheering as you do. 🏗️ How’s your self-hosting journey going? Is your server running? Is it awesome? I’d like to hear all about it ! ❓ Stuck? Come to an in person workshop . I’ll …
Here are some resources I recommend for self-hosters besides what you’ll find in the More Resources chapter in the book. selfh.st ¶ selfh.st is a great place to keep up on self-hostable software. Ethan Sholly ships an excellent email newsletter once a week. videos ¶ I’m making short …
Come join a hands-on session to help each other get unblocked wherever we’re at, from curious consideration about standing up a server to adding and improving smooth-running services. These workshops focus on fundamental concepts, tools, and techniques from the book, although having and having read the book is not …
The standard quality paperback is now in global distribution . That means my printer will get it out to many places folks can actually pick it up, flip through it, and buy it. I learned the hard way that self-publishing is hard (ok, I was warned, I did it anyway). One …
The paperback is ready! You may buy one today . Quality ¶ I currently use Lulu print on demand . I took my time experimenting with Lulu. They offer many choice combinations as far as materials and quality. I formatted and tested a few and landed on two versions: A “standard” economical and …
The book is done and I’m excited to set it loose! I wanted to share paper copies first but printing this baby is challenging. It’s probably me: I want it to look great, I’m self-publishing, and I’m doing all this for the first time. So yeah …
Great job! ¶ Thank you! How much is it? Where do I get it? ¶ See 💵 Buy . I found a bug / typo ¶ You rock. Will you please let me know about it and/or send me a patch ? I added ten services to mario ¶ You rock. Will you share what you did …
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 ¶ 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 ¶ Introduction Welcome, copyright, prerequisites, style. Background Reasoning, inspiration, motivation, author info, deeper meaning. Your journey Why you should or should not self-host. Practical examples Examples validating self-hosting. Plan Budget, resources, schedule, transition, user support. System design Service stack, security, operating system. Implementation How to…
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.