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