FreshRSS - Self-Hosted RSS Reader

This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.

Overview

FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator that lets you follow news sites, blogs, podcasts, YouTube channels and any other source that publishes a feed, and read everything in one fast, clean web interface that you own and control. This image delivers FreshRSS fully installed and running behind an nginx web server with php-fpm, so a working feed reader is serving within minutes of launch. The currently available version is FreshRSS 1.29.1.

Application Stack

FreshRSS runs as a PHP application: nginx answers on port 80 and passes requests to php-fpm over a local socket, and FreshRSS reads and writes its content directly on a dedicated data disk. It uses a self-contained SQLite database, so there is no separate database server to install, tune or back up. All of the reader's state - configuration, the feed database, the article and favicon cache and extension data - lives on its own independently resizable data volume kept separate from the operating system disk. systemd starts nginx and php-fpm on boot and restarts them on failure.

Read Your Feeds

Subscribe to any RSS or Atom feed, organise subscriptions into categories, and read new articles in a list, expanded or reading view with keyboard shortcuts, starring, filtering and full-text search. Import and export your subscriptions as OPML, apply per-feed refresh and retention rules, and use the built-in themes to tune the reading experience. A large ecosystem of extensions lets you add sharing, filtering and display features.

Read Anywhere

FreshRSS exposes Google Reader and Fever compatible APIs, so you can read and sync your feeds from popular mobile and desktop reader apps as well as the browser. Anonymous read-only access can be enabled for a public feed dashboard, and multi-user support lets several people keep separate accounts on one instance.

Secure First Boot

On the first boot of your instance a one-shot service generates a fresh administrator password, unique to that instance, creates the FreshRSS admin account, and writes the password to a file only the root user can read. No shared or default credentials ship in the image.

Ready To Use

Open the reader in your browser, read the generated credentials, sign in as admin, and start adding feeds straight away. Subscriptions, categories, users, extensions and the API are all managed from the web interface. A built-in health endpoint answers on the web server for load-balancer and uptime checks. The reader's data lives on a dedicated, independently resizable data disk.

cloudimg Support

24/7 technical support by email and chat. Help with deployment, feed and category organisation, OPML import and export, API and mobile-app setup, extension selection, storage and retention tuning, backup and upgrade planning.

Use Cases

A private, ad-free news and blog reader you host in your own account. A team or company feed dashboard for monitoring sources. A self-hosted alternative to a hosted feed-reading service. A monitoring feed aggregator for release notes, status pages and security advisories. A multi-user reader shared across a household or small team.

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