laitos - Top geek's chindogu

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laitos software suite offers all you need for hosting a personal website, receiving Emails, blocking ads with a DNS server.

And now for the geeks 🤓 - as a professional geek, you need Internet access whenever and wherever! laitos inter-operates with telephone, SMS, satellite terminals, to give you access to Internet features such as:

• Browse news and check out the weather.
• Keep in touch via Email, telephone call, and SMS.
• Remotely control computers in your laitos fleet.
• ... more apps to explore!

And when the going gets though, laitos tunnels TCP traffic over DNS for you to get around local network restrictions.

Check out the comprehensive component list to explore all of the features!

Highlights

• Efficient - it runs on an economy server with as little as 128MB system memory.
• Portable - it runs on X86, ARM, and all flavours of Linux and Windows.
• Independent - built-in self-healing and automatic maintenance for unmatched reliability.
• Hyped by Buzzwords - certified to run in container/Kubernetes/PaaS/IaaS/FaaS/*aaS.

Get Started

Download ready-to-use latest release, then craft your own server with the friendly get started page.

Support

Should you encounter any challenge during configuration and deployment of the software, please file an issue.

I'd love to hear from your feedback, feel free to Email me, get in touch on X (Twitter), and visit my home page hz.gl.

This is not an officially supported Google product.

Copyright

Copyright (C) 2016-February 2021 Houzuo (Howard) Guo guohouzuo@gmail.com. All rights reserved.

Copyright (C) 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 Google Inc. and contributors. All rights reserved.

This program is free software subject to the terms of Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. You may find the license text in the LICENSE file

Project name and origin

In late 2015/early 2016, a much smaller program called "websh" was created to offer basic shell access via SMS and telephone. The laitos project evolved from the smaller program, restarted from scratch in late 2016, and throughout 2017 the project gained a full suite of web servers along with integration to social networks and utility apps.

Finland is my favourite country and a good Finnish friend on IRC by the name of "zutt" recommended Finnish word "laitos" (meaning institute, apparently) to replace the old name "websh". I do not understand the rationale, but it sounds cute enough to name a project.