Self Hosting
2026-04-15 18:30:00 +0000
On Wednesday 15th April we hosted talks on the topic of Self Hosting in PorterShed a Do, Market Street, Galway from 6:30pm - 8:30pm.
Self-hosting is all about taking back control of your data and your services. Why pay a monthly subscription for something you can run yourself? From replacing Google Docs with Nextcloud, to ditching Dropbox for your own file storage, upgrading from Google Photos to Immich, or streaming your own media library with Jellyfin instead of Netflix and Spotify — there’s a self-hosted alternative for just about everything, and this community has probably tried most of them.
Let us introduce our speakers!
From Pi to PC: My Self-Hosting Journey – Martin Klačer Martin is chatting about how he got started self-hosting with the humble Raspberry Pi, and how that’s grown into a full blown homelab with a recycled PC. He’s also going to be chatting about some of the tools essential to his set-up, such as Docker and Cloudflare.
How Securing Services Made Life Easier – Aisling Krewer We’ve got our very own Aisling Krewer chatting about how security with Authentik actually made server admin easier and more accessible for her non-techie friends and family and how it compares to the lightweight alternative Pocket-ID. (Hint: She loves both.)
Resources
Here are the presentations from the meetup. In them you will find links to various references, demo repositories and google code labs. If anythings missing, please get in touch.
- Intro Presentation
- From Pi to PC: My Self-Hosting Journey (or as powerpoint)
- How Securing Services Made Life Easier
Sponsored by our wonderful hosts The PorterShed, thank you as always!
