Solar server

The project’s aim is to build and use our own, sustainable infrastructure for storing and sharing digital assets.

We use a local server powered by renewable energy sources (the page you are currently viewing is also hosted on it). The next steps are: switching to a server powered exclusively by solar energy (via a dedicated solar panel), creating more such instances and connecting them onto a network.

Both the hardware and software that we use for these purposes are open source. This should make it possible for us to replicate this solution in the future with a minimized risk of a vendor lock-in.

Reasons for doing this:

1. Regaining a sense of agency and control over our own data. Resilience against potentially rapid changes in the availability of advanced technological solutions provided by big corporations.
2. Going back to the original vision of the World Wide Web, which was supposed to be created by its users and used for sharing knowledge. Currently, the web is dominated by big platforms - only a few portals generate the majority of the traffic on the Internet, and their main goal is to obtain our data for their own financial gain.
3. Reducing the negative impact on the environment. A small, local server is completely sufficient for serving a simple, largely static website, and its negative impact on the environment is incomparably smaller than, for example, the impact of AWS (Amazon Web Services).