FreshRSS

FreshRSS is a powerful, lightweight RSS feed aggregator designed for self-hosting enthusiasts who want complete control over their news consumption. Built with PHP and requiring minimal resources, it provides a fast, efficient way to follow hundreds of websites without visiting each individually. With support for multiple users, each with their own subscriptions and reading preferences, FreshRSS is ideal for families, teams, or individuals managing diverse information sources. The platform's clean interface, extensive keyboard shortcuts, and mobile-responsive design make staying informed effortless across all your devices.

Common Use Cases

News enthusiasts use FreshRSS to aggregate content from multiple news sources, blogs, and publications into a unified reading experience. Software developers track project updates, technical blogs, and release notes across dozens of repositories and documentation sites. Content creators monitor competitors, industry trends, and inspiration sources through centralized feed management. Researchers aggregate academic publications, industry reports, and specialized publications for literature monitoring. Teams deploy multi-user instances to share curated feeds for collaborative knowledge management and trend tracking.

Key Features

• Self-hosted RSS/Atom feed aggregation with privacy protection
• Multi-user support with individual subscriptions and preferences
• Mobile-responsive web interface for any device
• Extensive keyboard shortcuts for power users
• Advanced filtering and search across all feeds
• Category and tag-based feed organization
• Mark as favorite and sharing capabilities
• Full article content fetching for truncated feeds
• API support for third-party mobile readers (Fever, Google Reader API)
• Plugin system for extended functionality
• OPML import/export for feed management
• Customizable themes and display options
• Automatic feed updates with configurable intervals
• Statistics and reading analytics
• Low resource usage suitable for Raspberry Pi

Why deploy FreshRSS on Hostinger VPS

Deploying FreshRSS on Hostinger VPS ensures reliable 24/7 feed updates without depending on your home computer or internet connection. The VPS environment provides consistent feed fetching on schedule regardless of local power outages, dedicated resources for handling hundreds of subscriptions without performance issues, and enterprise-grade network connectivity for fast feed updates from global sources. You benefit from professional uptime guarantees ensuring you never miss important updates, sufficient bandwidth for fetching full article content and media, and centralized access from any device anywhere. Hostinger's infrastructure offers better reliability than residential connections for long-running feed aggregation, while persistent storage protects your carefully curated subscriptions, reading history, and preferences across updates.