Admin guide

Hubzilla is more than a simple web application. It is a complex communications system which more closely resembles an email server than a web server. For reliability and performance, messages are delivered in the background and are queued for later delivery when sites are down. This kind of functionality requires a bit more of the host system than the typical blog. Not every PHP/MySQL hosting provider will be able to support Hubzilla. Many will but please review the requirements and confirm these with your hosting provider prior to installation.

We've tried very hard to ensure that Hubzilla will run on commodity hosting platforms such as those used to host Wordpress blogs and Drupal websites. It will run on most any Linux VPS system. Windows LAMP platforms such as XAMPP and WAMP are not officially supported at this time however we welcome patches if you manage to get it working.

Please consider reading following chapters in the Admin guide before installing Hubzilla:

• Where to find more help
• Before you begin
• Deployment
• Requirements
• Manual installation
• Automated installation via the .homeinstall shell script
• Service Classes (How to set limits on system resources)
• Theme management
• Channel directory (How to hide the tag cloud on the channel directory page; how to implement the off-grid / non federated mode)
• Database
• Hidden configs

You might consider using following ready-to-use solutions:

• Zot.host. As an admin you get access to admin panel in Hubzilla but not to ssh console or db direct access. (Nicht sicher, ob zot.host erwähnt werden soll, da Besitzer rialtate@rialtate.nomadic.homes nicht mehr online ist...)
• Briddle.org, run by wiego@briddle.org. (Nicht sicher, ob es erwähnt werden soll).
• Softacolous. Check if you can install the addons though. Avaliable on (selection is not verified and not exhaustive):
  • Novatrend.ch
  • Serverprofis.de
  • Kualo.com
  • Knthost.com
  • Glowhost.com
  • A2ahosting.in
  • Interserver.net
  • Global-village.de
• Yunohost. You cannot install Hubzilla into the root directory though, but only into a subdomain. Check if you can install addons.

The chapter Federation Addons in the Admin guide is outdated:

• The addon for the oStatus (GNU-Social) protocol is not supported anymore.
• The addon for the ActivityPub protocol on the other hand is fully implemented and available. It's called pubcrawl.

Please consider reading following chapters in the admin guide:

• Administration
• Troubleshooting

As administrator you do not have access to users' login data, but you can block or delete users and channels at any time. End-to-end-encryption of individual posts is possible in Hubzilla. Such posts cannot be viewed by the administrator.