Plant Your Seeds in the Radicle Garden
Plant Your Seeds in the Radicle Garden
A new service for always-on, hosted Radicle nodes.
Published by yorgos<br>🦋<br>🐘<br>🌐<br>on 02.06.2026
In Radicle, any repository stays online and accessible for as long as there is at least one Radicle<br>node seeding it.<br>The more nodes seeding a repository, the more resilient it becomes: with N seeders, it can<br>survive N-1 individual node failures. With nodes distributed across the world, this offers a<br>level of resilience unlike any other forge can provide.
Where, on traditional code forges, starring a repository is just a passive nod of approval, in<br>Radicle, seeding is an active contribution to a project’s survival. This makes seeding a much<br>stronger, more meaningful sign of support than any shiny, five-pointed endorsement symbol.
Keeping your Code Online, 24/7
Seeding is, therefore, core to the discoverability and availability of your repositories. But<br>relying on seeding your code just from your personal laptop can only take you so far. An always-on<br>node stays reachable even when your computer is asleep, offline,<br>or currently digesting a spilled cup of coffee.
This is where radicle.garden comes in. We now offer always-on nodes that you don’t have to<br>self-host!
To be clear, an always-on node is not a replacement for your local node , which you still use to<br>sign all your work. Rather, it is an additional node that replicates the<br>repositories you care about. Even if other community-run nodes drop offline, your projects are<br>guaranteed to stay accessible.
And not just your own projects! If you are not ready to migrate to Radicle just yet, you can<br>seed existing Radicle repositories. Seeding is a great way to support maintainers<br>whose work you care about .
Convenience Without Compromise
A radicle.garden node is an extra layer of guaranteed availability that the general community<br>cannot always provide. Importantly, it offers this resilience without the inconvenience of<br>managing 24/7 server infrastructure yourself.
Of course, you are still very welcome to self-host your own nodes.<br>Everything we ship is 100% open source, including the source code for radicle.garden!<br>In fact, we encourage you to self-host as much as you can: it makes the entire network healthier and more decentralized.
Non-Profit, Not a VC-backed Startup
The core goal of the Radicle protocol remains unchanged: we are building a peer-to-peer network to<br>host the world’s software. radicle.garden is a sustainability path to ensure we can keep evolving<br>the protocol in the long term. It is an attempt to follow the example of other successful open<br>source projects that have introduced optional hosted services to sustainably fund their core<br>development.
For individuals and private projects, subscribing for a hosted node is a great way to support<br>Radicle. The service is operated and fully owned by The Better Internet Foundation, the Swiss<br>non-profit that oversees the development of the Radicle Protocol. Every bit of profit goes directly<br>back into the<br>non-profit entity to fund protocol development. This is a non-profit initiative, as open source<br>hosting should be – not a venture capital-backed effort.
And just like our European entity, all radicle.garden nodes are also hosted in Europe.<br>That means the service is operated end-to-end within Europe — for those who care where their code<br>physically lives.
So, forget stars! Plant a seed, support the network, and consider radicle.garden for keeping your<br>code always online.