English tanslation for Self-hosting page.

Skip this sentence that I didn’t understand:
“L’auto-hébergement entraîne une disponibilité du serveur envers les
utilisateurs hébergés sur votre serveur et/ou aux personnes extérieures
consultants le serveur.”
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*For want of anything better, here is an index of interesting pages for the YunoHost server's administrator.*
* [What is Self-hosting](/self-hosting)
* [Installation guide](/install)
* [Compatible hardware](/hardware)
* [Available applications](/apps)

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#Self-hosting
#### Definition
**Self-hosting** consist to host at home its server, its data and its services.
**Self-hosting** is having a server at home in order to host personnal data and services on it.
#### Administrator responsibilities
If you want to serve a web site, the [email system](email) and [instant messaging](XMPP), the server need to stay turn on all the time, 24h/24 and 7d/7.
Self-hosting implies responsibilities, if you want to host a website, [emails](email) and have [an instant messaging system](XMPP) running, the server needs to stay online all the time, 24/7.
Self-hosting results availability of the server to users hosted and/or to externals people consulting it.
Problems can happen and the server could become unavailable: a power outage, Internet access loss, etc.
Problems can happen making server unavailable: power outage, loss of access to the Internet…etc.
If you use the [email system](email_en), and your server is unavailable, emails for the server will be sent under 3 to 7 days.
If you use the [email system](email_en) and your server becomes unavailable, emails destined to the server will be re-sent under 3 to 7 days.
#### Self-hosting contraints
* The rate of transmission information is low. In ADSL case, its often approximately 1/10 related to the rate of reception. For instance: 1 Mo/s of reception and 100 ko/s of emission;
* Availability 24/7;
* Slow transfer speed. With ADSL, upload is approximately 1/10 of the rate of download. For instance: 1 Mb/s download speed would give an upload speed of 100 kb/s;
* Availability must be 24/7;
* Move;
#### Self-hosting issues
* Anonymity, private life;
* Reappropriation of its data and its services;
* Reappropriation of personnal data and services;
* Decentralization, distributed networks;
<img src="/images/networks.png" width=500>
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* [Sandstorm](https://sandstorm.io/)
* [FreedomBox](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomBox)
*Thoses projects arent finished.*
#### Learn more
* [Decentralized Web Summit](http://www.decentralizedweb.net/)
* [Feudal Security](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.html) Bruce Schneier, famous security expert exposes the risks of a centralized web and the importance of civic action.