Community Hosting
Taking the responsibility to run your own digital infrastructure can seem like a big step. We can start small and grow at the rate of trust.
Do you want to switch from Big Tech to your own server? Need help with getting started? From a single website to a suite of digital tools, we'll help you get up and running with a plan. We specialize in community hosting of free and open source software for use by cultural institutions, non-profits and social movements.
Community hosting means you own the servers your digital tools run on and you actively participate in their maintenance. This can mean different things for different people.
- Playing a role in using and testing new digital tools
- Placing a server at your own social space or neighbourhood location
- Participating in training to learn how to take care of your own server
Our approach makes use of what is already there: we can locally source second-hand hardware or re-use your own internet connection. We don't need wasteful datacenters to run our own digital infrastructure. All software we host, deploy and maintain strives to be low in energy consumption. We avoid services which use LLM based AI, rely on for-profit provider integrations and contain tracking and surveillance.