Informous.org

Resources

This section is meant to provide resources on self-hosting and FOSS services. Some of these resources are what we personally use and we recommend you take a look.

r/selfhosted Wiki

The official wiki for r/selfhosted which encourages the use of alternative services for popular modern applications.

Site providing guides on how to set up a personal website and self-hosted services such as email. This site was created by Luke Smith as a way for the average person to become independant from big tech. Check out their Github and perhaps submit your own guide to the lanchad site for others to follow.

CyberHost

UK-based site featuring informative, easy to follow guides on self-hosting services. Here is CyberHost's guide on getting started with self-hosting.

Ongoing projects

Iridious search engine

We are planning on making a meta-search engine powered by Searx for use as an anonymous search engine.

This will be hosted on our network site Iridious.net and the site will serve for more future services.

We are considering making our searx instance public on the searx.space public instance list once set-up is complete and our testing is finalized.

Services

Below you will find our list of available services that we host ourselves. These are meant to set an example of what we host and what you can host yourself.

Iridious.net

Iridious is our very own hosted search engine. Using Searx, A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine. Searx is a great alternative to an engine like Google and DuckDuckGo. This is since while being able to return the same results, Searx is a private search engine that does not track your history, and is free and open source. Preferences can be changed in settings and search history is stored in a cookie within your browser.

Email

Currently, our email is in a private testing phase. Deployed using Luke Smith's emailwiz, This email uses OpenDKIM for email validation and Dovecot for sending and retrieving mail. You can check the script link for more details, and on how to set up a mail server for your own personal use.

Coming soon

Matrix as a federated service

We are currently testing a federated Matrix.org instance for end-to-end encrypted communication.

Currently our Matrix homeserver domain is matrix.informous.org

Note that account creation on this homeserver is currently disabled as this domain is not entirely permanent.

VPN client

A future VPN client will be hosted on our server. Will start in a testing phase and will configure as needed.

Our VPN client will be held as one of our highest priorities at the moment.

XMPP

Up and coming we will experiment with an XMPP protocol hosted on our servers.

XMPP is similar to Matrix, in which end-to-end encrypted communication is provided by means of these protocols.