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Eilean enables you to host your own digital 'island', where you control your own online infrastructure.

     

       
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The use of federated protocols allows you to 'bridge' your island to others.

     

       
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Eilean enables you to host your own digital island, where you control your own online infrastructure.

     

       
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The use of federated protocols allows you to ferry data to other islands.

     

       
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Eilean uses [NixOS](https://nixos.org/) to enable reproducible deployments of services such as webservers, mailservers, federated communication servers, Virtual Private Network servers, and more.

     

       
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However, they still require a lot of manual configuration for domain names, DNS records, user accounts, databases, HTTP proxies, TLS certificates, and more.