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Self-host FreshRSS

RSS reader
prices checked · Jul 2026

A free, self-hosted RSS aggregator — fast, themeable, and extensible, with built-in scraping for sites that dropped their feeds. Owns your reading, ad-free.

Feedly / yr$72
Self-hosted / yr~$55
You keep$17/yr

Key facts

CategoryRSS reader
LicenseAGPL-3.0
StackPHP
Min RAM256 MB
Dockeryes
Difficulty

What you need

  • Any VPS with at least 256 MB of RAM
  • A domain you control — most self-hosted setups need HTTPS in front of them
  • Under an hour if you've used Docker before

Install with Docker Compose

Save this as compose.yml and run docker compose up -d:

# FreshRSS
docker run -d --name freshrss \
  -p 8080:80 -v freshrss-data:/var/www/FreshRSS/data \
  freshrss/freshrss
# open http://SERVER_IP:8080

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