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.

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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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Far from the Madding crowd - Geminispace and the smolweb

The lack of visual clutter is shocking - in a good way. It’s like being back in the 90s again. This means that the amount of bandwidth, storage and resources need to either run a server (They’re called capsules) or to visit one is virtually zero. You could probably run a Gemini capsule on a pocket c…

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