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Self-host FreshRSS

updated Jul 2026prices checked · Aug 2026Install verified on Ubuntu 26.04 · Jul 2026 · how we test

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.

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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

Run these commands on your server:

# 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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