FossAsia 2025 - Take Control of Your Own Data via Self-Hosting Through Open Source Software

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1. Take Control of Your Own Data via Self-Hosting Through Open Source Software I’m not paranoid, you are!
2. Karn Wong Loves automation Secure deployment is my thing FossAsia & HashiCorp Ambassador Blog & Portfolio karnwong.me Say hi at Bluesky: @karnwong.me Cloud Automation and Optimization Consultant at MFEC
3. We rely a lot on online tools & services
4. Service providers control and manage our data
5. We don’t know what they do with our data
6. Not all services allow you to export your own data
7. And not ALL your data will be exported
8. What can we do about it? Hint: it’s in the talk title
9. Anatomy of Application Persistent Storage Data Tier Frontend Backend Disk / Blob Storage Database
10. Self-Hosting A practice for running and managing websites / services using your own server Further reading: karnwong.me/posts/2021/08/self-hosting-primer
11. Following Are OSS Alternatives
12. Vaultwarden Password Manager Alternative for Lastpass, Bitwarden
13. Navidrome Music Streaming Alternative for Spotify, Deezer
14. Jellyfin Video Streaming Alternative for Netflix
15. Immich Photo Sharing & Storage Alternative for Google Photos
16. Miniflux RSS Reader Alternative for Feedly
17. Wallabag Read-It-Later Alternative for Pocket
18. Memos Note-Taking Alternative for Google Keep
19. Linkding Bookmark Manager Alternative for Raindrop
20. Umami Analytics Alternative for Google Analytics
21. Further Reading opensourcealternative.to
22. Thank you 🙏 Download slides at: karnwong.me