https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/635e2fa6-0915-4845-8742-afaeb261e46b Bluesky PDS is the personal data server behind a Bluesky account. Hosted on ElfHosted, yours stays online at its own secure address, for tinkerers. Run a Bluesky PDS with ElfHosted: it stays online around the clock at its own secure address, with no server or proxy for you to set up and nothing at home for anyone to unplug, and new PDS releases are rolled out in our daily maintenance. The PDS itself is the Bluesky team's reference server. What is Bluesky PDS? A personal data server is the home for one or more accounts on the Bluesky network. It keeps your posts and data, and the AT Protocol relays carry them to everyone else. Running your own means your account is tied to your domain and your server, not locked to a single provider: use a domain you own as your handle, confirmed with a DNS record, and keep your media in your own object storage, so it's already in place if you ever move. Hosted Bluesky PDS is one for tinkerers, and it's experimental on ElfHosted: setup uses environment variables and you bring your own email sending; we keep it running, reachable, backed up and secure, and how you use it is up to you. Start with a 7-day trial. It's backed up daily, and you can restore it yourself whenever you need to. Stuck? Ask Sam, the assistant that comes with your ElfHosted account: he checks that your PDS is running, reads its logs, and restarts it if you say so. And when you'd rather talk to a person, our team is on Discord around the clock, in a family-friendly, carefully moderated server. ElfHosted is not affiliated with Bluesky. It's one place for support for every app you run with us, handled by professionals, instead of a GitHub issue, docs that may be out of date, or yet another Discord per project. Unlike a generic chatbot, which guesses and overcomplicates, Sam is tuned on these apps and the way we run them: he safely reads your actual logs and proposes a fix, and nothing changes until you approve it. Start a 7-day trial: https://store.elfhosted.com/product/bluesky-pds/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=bluesky-pds Bluesky PDS docs: https://docs.elfhosted.com/app/bluesky-pds/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=bluesky-pds ElfHosted: https://elfhosted.com/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=bluesky-pds Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:14 What is a Bluesky PDS? 0:30 Running a Bluesky PDS yourself 0:57 Always online at a secure address 1:08 Hosted Bluesky PDS: updates and backups About ElfHosted: we run open-source apps for you, kept updated and looked after by elves, so you get the apps without the upkeep. [s]elf-hosting without [s]uffering. https://elfhosted.com?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video #Bluesky #ATProtocol #ElfHosted Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:07:24 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.elfhosted.com https://video.elfhosted.com/lazy-static/avatars/0ad9ef41-d7cc-447f-b89c-24dcddbb6422.png https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/635e2fa6-0915-4845-8742-afaeb261e46b All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.elfhosted.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.