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Updated How to: Hosting a Friendica site at home (markdown)

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**Currently not working due to crc errors with zip file, new zip file being created.**
This guide was translated to [Japanese](http://oss.infoscience.co.jp/friendica/wiki/How-to%253A-Hosting-a-Friendica-site-at-home.html). You can find it on the site of [oss.infoscience.co.jp](http://oss.infoscience.co.jp/friendica/wiki/How-to%253A-Hosting-a-Friendica-site-at-home.html).
You can host a fully federated Friendica site at home. We have a ready-made VirtualBox image for this purpose. It makes 'home Friendica' a viable option for more people - not just 'geeks'. Installing the VirtualBox image is still more complicated than your average program, but in many cases it's significantly easier than installing Friendica from scratch.
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2) Install Virtual Box on your machine: [[https://www.virtualbox.org/]]. It's advisable to familiarize yourself with the program a little by reading the chapter **First steps** in its help pages. At the very least, for now, read sections 1.5 to 1.8. Be sure to read 1.9 later on, because it describes a very easy way to back up your server.
3) Download and unzip this image: [[http://downloads.friendica.eu/Friendica.zip]]. Make a copy of it in case something goes wrong and you want to start over again. (The zip currently online is defective. A new version will be uploaded)
3) Download and unzip this image: [[http://downloads.friendica.eu/Friendica.zip]]. Make a copy of it in case something goes wrong and you want to start over again.
4) In Virtual Box, set up a new virtual machine for a Linux/Debian system, specifying the downloaded disk as your hard disk. 256 MB of RAM should suffice. The network mode should be set to "Bridged".