Open Source Apps

NextCloud is best known as an open source cloud storage server, but did you know it also offers apps such as NextCloud Calendar, Contacts, and Mail as a complete groupware solution? The Calendar and Contacts apps are CalDAV and CardDAV…

Coding Responsive Landing Pages with Mautic – Tips & Tricks

Open Source Apps

Landing Pages, marketing automation platforms, mautic

Like many other marketing automation platforms, Mautic provides a visual editor (also known as WYSIWYG, or “what you see is what you get” editor) to make it easier for marketing users to customize visually appealing landing pages based on landing…

Open Source SMS Marketing with Mautic – Twilio Integration

Open Source Apps

mautic, SMS Marketing, Twilio

SMS, also known as text messages, are a common communications medium supported on every mobile phone, from the most inexpensive feature phone, to the latest flagship iPhone or Android device. In 2019, there were over 5 billion mobile subscribers around…

Self-Hosted Analytics with Matomo Community Edition

Open Source Apps

Google Analytics, Matomo, Web Analytics

Get Matomo, Installed on Your Server Any webmaster, whether professional or hobbyist, has probably installed Google Analytics at some point to gather statistics about the audience, acquisition, and behavior of the visitors to their website. Prior to Google Analytics’ taking…

Guide to Privacy Proofing Your Digital Life

Open Source Apps

best practices, Cybersecurity, Privacy Protection

Tech giants, most of which are from the US, are permeating every aspect of our digital lives from the browser (Chrome), search engine (Google, Bing), and messaging apps (WhatsApp, Messenger) we use, to where we store our private documents (Dropbox,…

Protecting NextCloud behind CloudFlare Firewall and Anti-DDoS

Open Source Apps

CloudFlare, Cybersecurity, NextCloud

Get NextCloud, Installed on Your Server For convenience, most NextCloud instances are running on a web server exposed to the Internet, and its myriad of cybercriminals and security threats. Even if your NextCloud server is properly hardened and all your…

Integrating ONLYOFFICE Community Edition with NextCloud using Docker

Open Source Apps

NextCloud, Online Office Suite, ONLYOFFICE

Get ONLYOFFICE, Installed on Your Server NextCloud is unquestionably the leading open-source file sync & share app on the marketplace, but despite the introduction of NextCloud Text, a simple, collaborative note-taking app, the suite doesn’t officially ship with a comprehensive…

Implementing S3 Compatible Primary Storage for NextCloud

Open Source Apps

Cloud Storage, File Sync & Share, NextCloud

Get NextCloud, Installed on Your Server NextCloud, an open source cloud storage solution, supports using S3 compatible object storage not only as external storage, but also as the primary (internal) storage for your NextCloud deployment. First, why is it “S3…

Storage VPS Options for NextCloud Deployment

Open Source Apps

Cloud Storage, File Sync & Share, NextCloud

Get NextCloud, Installed on Your Server Most virtual private servers in modern clouds use solid state drives, usually configured in RAID 10 or RAID 50 for redundancy (ability to tolerate X of Y failures with no data loss) combined with…

Xfce4 Desktop Environment and X Server for Ubuntu on WSL 2

Open Source Apps

Linux, Virtualization, Windows 10

The Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 is the first time Microsoft will ever ship a full Linux kernel supporting native system calls with Windows 10. Since CEO Satya Nadella took the helm from Steve Ballmer with the mission of making…