Next on the self-hosting bender

It’s been a solid 4 months since I began tinkering with Docker and self-hosting. I think of this as digital hobbyist carpentry, the way you build birdhouses for yourself. (Looking at you, Ron Swanson.)

So the next project on my agenda is testing out a Funkwhale instance for my friends. In case you haven’t come across it before, it blends the idea of a personal music server with the social and/or decentralized idea of sharing music recommendations.

What I want to build is: A private funkwhale instance that has my ripped lossless music. Inviting close friends and family to use it, add their own collections which they have complete control over. Make this accessible over the internet via reverse-proxies, something I haven’t attempted yet. This would exist alongside Spotify and other subscriptions.

I’ll keep this page posted on how this goes. I think I have two well-meaning guinea pigs to test it out on.