Feedly is a nice news aggregator but when you want to profit from all the nice feature you have to purchase pro or pro+. Don’t get me wrong, paying for a nice service is always a good thing, but with all the services one already pays (Spotify, …) it sums up quite nicely, especially if other family members also would like to use the same service ;-) Beside, I am a long time fan of Tiny Tiny RSS (ttrss), one of the best open source news reader out there.
So why not run your own instance of ttrss. I tend to run it on my server or k8s cluster, but as I play around a lot I eventually mess this up, so having a dedicate instance only for ttrss may be a better option. As mentioned in my last blog post, Hetzner has very competitive offers. Choosing an CX11 you get 1 CPU, 2GB of RAM and 20GB of disk space for as low as 2.68€ per month - which is nothing compared to other cloud providers out there. And it’s plenty to host your ttrss.
What’s missing is the setup of the ttrss. As usual I don’t want to do such things manually and if automated others should also be able to profit from my work. So I came up with my new ansible role papanito.ttrss
which automates the whole setup. In combination with the hcloud module I came up with the following playbook, which does
- create a server
- setup ttrss incl. php and postgres
- create a cloudflare tunnel
Simply apply and volià you got your own instance of ttrss:
This is a good first start to get your own low-cost ttrss news aggregator which can be used in your browser or as well on mobile. There are still some features missing and if you also have suggestion what can be included in the ansible role, feel free to add an issue.
By the way, I also integrated the feediron which
allows you to replace an article’s contents by the contents of an element on the linked URL’s page i.e. create a “full feed”.
You may have a look at my configuration.