<![CDATA[Beakerbrowser's Homebase - a self-deployable tool for managing websites published with the Dat protocol]]>Hello Cloudron community!

My name is Nick and I am posting here in hopes of getting the Homebase app created by- https://beakerbrowser.com/ added to the Cloudron app store. Here is the repo- https://github.com/beakerbrowser/homebase
Beakerbrowser is built with Electron & utilizes the-https://datproject.org/ which is a p2p protocol for publishing data including web pages and web apps. The browser also accesses the conventional web via (http/https)

The Homebase app allows users to:

  • Keep dat:// websites online
  • Publish dat:// websites to DNS shortnames
  • Mirror dat:// websites to https://
  • Provision and manage HTTPS with Let's Encrypt
  • Optional Pinning Service API endpoints

They have a company which has built and provides a hosting service called- https://hashbase.io/
This has also been open sourced- https://github.com/beakerbrowser/hashbase
The point of the projects (Beakerbrowser, Dat & Hashbase/Homebase) are to create an open web with "no servers" but we all understand there still have to be some form of server somewhere and in this instance a self hosted server like Cloudron is more than ideal. We would like to be able to simply install the Homebase app and start to host web-pages and apps on the Dat protocol/network from a personal secure cloud! I can imagine many others would enjoy and utilize this as well!

Regardless, ❤ what y'all are doing with Cloudron!

Here are some additional resource about the listed projects:
YouTube


Go and download the Beakerbrowser to access the below podcast with the founders: Episode 3 is good!
dat://dat-cast.hashbase.io/

Also, just mess around with the browser especially if you are a web and or app developer!
=]

-Nick
+1

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1421/beakerbrowser-s-homebase-a-self-deployable-tool-for-managing-websites-published-with-the-dat-protocolRSS for NodeTue, 13 Oct 2026 10:46:37 GMTTue, 31 Jul 2018 05:11:58 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Beakerbrowser's Homebase - a self-deployable tool for managing websites published with the Dat protocol on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 02:21:18 GMT]]>@robi +1 - I use Zeronet as well. It's pretty good if you can sift out the cruft.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/20976https://forum.cloudron.io/post/20976Tue, 08 Dec 2020 02:21:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Beakerbrowser's Homebase - a self-deployable tool for managing websites published with the Dat protocol on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 02:17:57 GMT]]>@plusone-nick there are a few alternates, zeronet.io being another.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/20975https://forum.cloudron.io/post/20975Tue, 08 Dec 2020 02:17:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Beakerbrowser's Homebase - a self-deployable tool for managing websites published with the Dat protocol on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:10:54 GMT]]>@marcusquinn wow i think this is my first cloudron forum post ever lol & yeah this is a very interesting project and they have managed to stay around and grow. Would be nice to have an alternate protocol for "web" traffic

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/20968https://forum.cloudron.io/post/20968Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:10:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Beakerbrowser's Homebase - a self-deployable tool for managing websites published with the Dat protocol on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:02:15 GMT]]>@plusone-nick Nice find, just spotted they are at v1.0 now:

Worth a read:

I can see this being a good add-on for Cloudron as a way to host sites without needing a central authority controlled domain name, or to have peer-to-peer domain redundancy.

By coincidence (or brainwashing algo) the above Twitter link appeared directly after this more controversial Tweet, that highlights the increasing awareness of deplatforming risks for publishers:

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