About selfhostedvoice.com
selfhostedvoice.com publishes practical guides for small groups who want to run their own voice and chat: friend groups, gaming clans, families and LAN party hosts. We cover open source projects like Mumble, Matrix/Element, Stoat and Fluxer, commercial options like TeamSpeak and Discord, and SILOD.
Disclosure
Who we are. This site is published by 2-5-2 Technologies. 2-5-2 Technologies also makes SILOD, a self-hosted voice and chat app that appears in our guides. When we write about SILOD, we're writing about our own product. We try to state its limits as plainly as its strengths, for example that its Host runs only on Windows and needs port forwarding for friends outside your home. You should still read those sections knowing who wrote them.
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