Announcing an Alpha (Test) release of my self-hosting program: Sprouts/Gardener

Desktop application that makes it possible to self-host your website on a VPS, without cloud lock-in, and without linux sysadmin skills

Available here for public testing: https://judi.systems/sprouts/

Over three years ago, I wrote a post about the lack of tools to make self-hosting easy without sysadmin skills.

The intention was always to work on a project to solve this problem! Things did not go to plan, and the project got derailed several times for various reasons, until about 4 months ago when I started working in earnest on releasing this first version.

This first iteration focuses on static content. While the intention was always to make a website where you can interact with your visitors, static content was the lowest hanging fruit and I decided to go for it as a starting point.

I am now using this program to publish my own static website: Judi Systems

Here’s a one minute demo of publishing a website to a domain name on the internet, on a freshly provisioned VPS linux box from Vultr

Head over here to learn more https://judi.systems/sprouts/

If you give it a try, I would love to hear your feedback!

Thank you for your attention to this matter!