Self-hosting FreshRSS (for free) on Fly.io in under 10 minutes

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  • freshrss-on-fly-io

    Here's how you can run FreshRSS on Fly.io

  • Create a fly.toml file similar to the one in my repo. Make sure to update the appname to a unique name.

  • FreshRSS

    A free, self-hostable news aggregator…

  • Review the environment variables listed in the [env] section and update if required. You can check FreshRSS' docs on the environment variables that can be updated

  • InfluxDB

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  • sathyabh.at

    My personal blog originally powered by WordPress, now a static site generated with Hugo

  • Fly.io's CLI-oriented approach makes updates via GitHub actions easy. While I haven't set up for FreshRSS, you can look at this PR where I add a GitHub action to deploy my blog, sathyabh.at, a static site powered by Hugo to Fly.io.

  • flyctl

    Command line tools for fly.io services

  • FreshRSS is a free, self-hostable RSS feeds aggregator. Fly.io is a super amazing platform that runs application servers close to end users.

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