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What is Self Hosting?

When you use a third-party service for your needs, whatever those needs may be, you're always taking on a certain degree of privacy risk.

When you upload files to a cloud provider, you really don't know how secure those files are or what the provider may or may not do with them. Will they scan them in some way? Will they delete files that match the hash of the copyrighted file, even if you have the right to use and store that file? Who has access to your files? How many people can access your photos, documents, and other files in a company with hundreds or even thousands of employees?

You'll never really know. You simply have to take the word of the company in question that nobody is looking at your stuff and everything is secure.

We all accept that, to a greater or lesser degree, because it's nearly impossible to live in the modern world without some sort of digital footprint and various connections to different social media, webmail providers, and storage companies, but it's worth stepping back and asking yourself if the convenience of a given service is worth giving that service access to some or all of your digital life.

Further, the legal processes for gaining access to your data are very different when you personally control that data on the hardware you own versus effectively leasing space from a third party to use their services.


If you frequent internet forums where people discuss digital privacy concerns and self-hosting tips and tricks, they might come off as a bunch of paranoid folks, but in the end, they're not wrong. We all trade a lot of our privacy away for the conveniences web-based services provide.

I am creating a suite of services which I manage on a private server hosted outside the UK and most importantly, outside the US; the hosting company is located in France and as such the server and data are protected by some pretty great EU regulations

You can leave a digital footprint traced back to you - which you probably dont want - if you

  1. Search online web for new movies/shows
  2. Search public torrent sites for media
  3. Use a torrent program to download media 

Also, you are sharing your most sensitive data when using youtube, netflix etc while also footing more and more monthly subscriptions that are only set to rise - so I aim to add to services that you know are secured and free from those monthly subscriptions... services which I aim to add to bit by bit to protect users privacy and right to choice

  • Create a shared streaming service with up to date content that users can access over secure connections
  • Create a service that empowers the user to add and monitor upcoming movies and shows to download when released
  • Create a invite only subreddit for notifications of new additions 
  • Create a Media Downloader for services that abuse adverts throigh the content
    • Youtube
    • TBC
  • Create a general search and download service allowing users anonymous access to torrent content
  • Create a download portal to allow users to download media and other downloads
  • Create a safe storage facilicly to replicate Google Drive etc
  • Create a safe Photo service to replicate iCloud Photos etc
  • Create a self-hosted secure Password Vault facility
also see https://help.pknw1.co.uk/

 

To treat this as a I would a professional product suite, I have adopted two brand names which you'll see throughout

 


 

 

 

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