The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #7

Happy Monday! Hope you had a good weekend!

This week, we learned that we should never underestimate the power of a Raspberry Pi 4. u/Swamp7hing over at r/selfhosted has shown us their Homer Dashboard displaying all their services running on their Raspberry Pi 4.

Find out more below!

Finally done setting up my RPi4 Homer server dashboard! from selfhosted

Self-hosting Papercups.io - Open-source live customer chat with Slack integration!

Papercups is an opensource self-hosted chat window that you can add to your site to interact with your visitors instantly. Papercups gives you the ability to reply directly from Slack or using their built-in messenger.

Papercups gives you the freedom to customise your chat windows to fit your branding, show whether you have representatives online to help your customers. A feature-rich dashboard with all the analytics data you'll need. Papercups even has screen sharing built-in, for when it's just easier to show something that isn't working. It's super easy to install, as you'll see in just a minute.

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