Before installing
Please consider reading the help pages for Hubzilla admins which are available on any Hubzilla server under /help/admin before installing the software.
Hubzilla resembles an e-mail 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.
Build deployment container image of Hubzilla based on Nix
If you want to use a the build deployment container image of Hubzilla based on Nix, you can find that on codeberg.org/node9/fediverse.nix.img, made available by Michal Klodner.
Ready-to-use hosted solutions
You might consider using the following ready-to-use solutions:
- knthost.com/hubzilla. Several customers confirmed good support.
- weingaertner-it.de/index.php/produkt/hubzilla/. We heard about it from happy Hubzilla admin customers.
- apps.yunohost.org/app/hubzilla. You cannot install Hubzilla into the root directory though, but only into a subdomain. Check if you can install addons.
- softaculous.com/apps/socialnetworking/Hubzilla. Check if you can install the addons though. Available on (selection is not verified and not exhaustive):
Running, Administering, Trouble shooting
You should offer on the /siteinfo both a link to the channel of the admin and a way of getting into contact with the admins by other means, e.g. a clone on another hub and/or something outside Hubzilla, so the users of your hub can write down this info somewhere outside Hubzilla and contact you even when your hub is temporarily unavailable. In order to do so, enter that info under /admin/site in the field "Administrator information".
Activating logging under /admin/logs helps you to locate reasons for bugs or misconfigurations. Additionally, if you run on a shared host, with logging activated you learn about the routines of your server provider.
Please consider reading the Administration and Troubleshooting help pages for Hubzilla admins which are available on any Hubzilla server under /help/admin.
How user privacy is protected from the admins
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.
Getting support
Use the hubzilla.org/channel/adminsforum to discuss your experiences and problems with other Hubzilla admins.