v0.1 · manifesto
Own your infrastructure.
Or rent it forever.
selfhosted.ma is an independent publication for individuals, associations, and small businesses in Morocco who want to run their own email, files, websites, and AI.
Open source, on hardware you control.
What we believe
- 01
Data you cannot move is data you do not own.
- 02
Money spent on foreign SaaS leaves the country. Spent on local VPS, integrators, and trainers, it stays.
- 03
Open source is not a preference. It is the only software you can audit, fork, and walk away from when its vendor leaves.
- 04
AI is going on-prem. We will show you how.
What we will publish
Practical, opinionated tracks. Nothing is written yet — these are the planned pillars.
- Email— coming soon
- Files— coming soon
- Media— coming soon
- AI— coming soon
- Security— coming soon
- Compliance— coming soon
- Hardware— coming soon
Built in the open
The site source is public on GitLab. Code is MIT, prose is CC-BY-SA. We recommend self-hostable open-source software, and we name specific projects only after we have run them in production.
Help us build it
We are looking for sysadmins, writers, and translators. If you have run any of the planned tracks in production and your notes are worth turning into a guide, we would like to publish them, with a byline.