This article is a collection of ideas to practice selfhosting with Yunohost for beginners who are learning system administration. Yunohost is like magic, this server OS allows us to deploy a full, working email server in one click and that works for other kinds of server too. Now, let's see the ideas!
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1. Email Server
You can build your own 'Gmail' server at home. Yunohost gives you an instant installation of email server set that consists of Postfix + Dovecot + Roundcube so every user you create will have his/her own email address that looks like malsasa@yunohost.local. Try it out!
2. Website
You can build a professional website by your own. Yunohost gives you a set of web server + database server + website management system (Nginx + MySQL + WordPress) so you can make a selfhosted website crazy fast!
3. Web Forum
4. Wiki
You can build your own Wikipedia at home. Yunohost gives you MediaWiki, the same server software that built Wikipedia.
5. Online Storage
You can build your own 'GDrive' server as well. Yunohost gives you technology called Nextcloud, that is, the full-featured extensible online storage owned by you.
6. Video Streaming
You can built your own 'YouTube' server at home. Amazing, right? Yunohost gives you PeerTube, which in turn will be a video uploading, sharing and broadcasting server on your own hands.
7. Social Media
More amazing stuffs, with Yunohost you can build your own 'Facebook', 'Twitter', or 'Instagram' server. It gives you the technologies for that, namely Friendica, Mastodon and Pixelfed, respectively, which in turn will become social media under your own / your organization's custody.
8. Office Documents Editor
You can build your own 'GDocs' or 'MS 365' for use in your company. Yunohost gives you two choices either LibreOffice Online (aka Collabora) or ONLYOFFICE.
9. Video Conferencing
10. Software Forge
Want to be independent from GitHub or any other online software forge? Yes, with Yunohost you are made easy to build your own software forget with greatest choices available, namely, GitLab CE and Gitea.
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