How To Install Plausible Analytics

Plausible Analytics is an open-source, self-hosted web analytics application written in Elixir. It focuses on being simple, and privacy-focused. In this tutorial you will install the Plausible app and a few helper services using Docker Compose, then install Nginx and Certbot to set up a secure HTTPS reverse proxy.

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