sovereign

Sovereign is a series of Ansible playbook scripts that administer a server. Established by Alex Payne, Sovereign has allowed me to setup a VPS running on Linode with the following features:

• Email server
• Calendar
• Contacts
• OwnCloud (Dropbox equivalent)
• IRC Bouncer
• Jabber Server

HTTPS comes by default.

I have found the project extremely stable and relatively straightforward to setup, although unsurprisingly email was tricky to setup especially when authenticating oneself as the sender of email. Apart from that, it's been an interesting and rewarding journey.

While not strictly IndieWeb (some make the distinction between this being a personal cloud), I'm happy to be able to not rely on 3rd parties to organize and control my data.