# Solidbox > A sustainable, simple, user controlled server Keep your knowledge in your home. Share some parts with friends and family as you like, and maybe publish some of it for all to see. Solidbox is an alternative to putting trust in external providers of e.g. web storage, social media and chat. Using SolidBox you run your own internet services yourself - without technical challenges, just turn on the box! Solidbox runs on Debian GNU/Linux, ensuring stability and security. You can do text-chat, host a website, and store and share documents, but the Solidbox is really about processing the data *contained* in these services. The web is about links, it is all about connecting. But the web as it used to be didn't work well enough for this purpose. The Solidbox is a bridge between the old web world, and the new "semantic" web which is about the relationships between all that data. The difference between a pile of documents and an address book is the level of organisation. The wonder of linked data storage is that you can access linked information like friends groups and photos linked to a chosen person. The web currently doesn't work in this linked way. We use letters, not objects with their relationships attached. Solidbox helps to organise your data in this new web way. The conventional web groups documents, pages, letters, by the webpages, programs or <> that use them. So if you use a recipe that your friend sent you via email, and list the ingredients on your shopping list, to make a beautiful meal that you take a picture of and share on your social network, and then log the calories consumed on your fitness app - they are all disconnected. Imagine if you can link them all together, so that if you select the recipe, or the photo, or the ingredients in your shopping list, you can quickly and easily find all the other bits it is linked to. The caveat is that you need to put this data in the box in a way that helps the box learn what is tied together. In this way, Solidbox automatically adapts to your needs based on the data you feed it. More importantly, this data - the recipe, and your friend's contact info, and the ingredients, and your photo and your calory consumption - is not coupled, or imprisoned to any application. So if you find a better fitness app, you can use your data there easily and carry on without missing a beat. This new way of doing things is called data-centric [Solid] standards. Solidbox is simple to use and automatically adapts to your needs based on the data you feed it. Data is kept strictly decoupled from applications, conforming with the data-centric [Solid] standards for application processing, data exchange, and access control. [Solid]: https://solidproject.org/developers/vocabularies "Solid - conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles"