Self-host your own digital island
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2# Eilean 🏝️
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4Eilean enables you to host your own digital 'island', where you control you're own online infrastructure.
5The use of federated protocols allows you to 'bridge' your island to others.
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7Eilean uses [NixOS](https://nixos.org/) to enable reproducible deployments of services such as webservers, mailservers, federated communication servers, Virtual Private Network servers, and more.
8However, they still require a lot of manual configuration for domain names, DNS records, user accounts, databases, HTTP proxies, TLS certificates, and more.
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10Eilean aims to be a optioned framework to allow the simple deployment of these services on a single machine, and a library of documentation for common issues in managing runtime state like secrets, databases, and upgrades.
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12By using Nix, Eilean modules are extensive to other configurations outside this deployment scenario, such as offloading a particularly resource heavy service to a dedicated machine.
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14Contributions for additional services welcome.
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16For instructions on getting started see [docs/getting_started.md](./docs/getting_started.md).