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FreshRSS on VPS

Free self-hostable RSS news aggregator

GitHub stars
16405
License
AGPL-3.0
Docker
Yes
GPU
Not required

Requirements

Minimum and recommended VPS specs

Badges are attached to each value. An estimate is never presented as an official project requirement.

FreshRSS hardware requirements
ResourceMinimumRecommended
RAM512MB Estimated1GB Estimated
CPU1 Estimated1 Estimated
Disk5GB EstimatedNot stated Not stated

Disk figures describe the application footprint recorded in the dataset. Personal media, documents, backups and other user data can require substantially more storage.

RunOnVPS sizing suggestion

Suggested VPS tier

1 GB RAM tier

This is our sizing suggestion, derived from FreshRSS’s recommended RAM of 1GB. It is not an official requirement and it does not guarantee that every workload, plug-in set or media library will fit comfortably.

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Deployment

Docker & GPU

Docker support: Yes

GPU: Not required

Check the source notes below before assuming a GPU, transcoding workload or machine-learning feature is included in the baseline deployment.

Commercial alternative

What it can replace

Feedly

FreshRSS is catalogued here as a self-hosted alternative to Feedly. Feature parity varies, so compare your required workflow before migrating.

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Source check

Important notes

Stars/license checked 2026-10-24. Official README Requirements: 'light server', runs even on Raspberry Pi 1 (tested 150 feeds/22k articles), PHP 8.1+, PostgreSQL 10+/SQLite/MariaDB 10.6+/MySQL 8.0+ — 官方未标明 RAM/CPU/磁盘数值,均为基于官方 Docker 默认部署(SQLite 单容器)的估算. Official Docker images linked from README automated install.

Data source: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS

Project repository: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS