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AdGuard Home is a DNS server with built-in ad/tracker blocking, served as the resolver for any device on your network (or via VPN). Pi-hole's main competitor…
BookStack is a self-hosted wiki organized into Books → Chapters → Pages. PHP-based (Laravel), MariaDB for storage, sensible defaults, sane theme. The right…
Forgejo is a hard fork of Gitea, run by a community non-profit. Both are excellent lightweight self-hosted Git forges. This article covers Forgejo specifically…
Ghost is the leading self-hostable blogging platform — modern editor, clean themes, native newsletter / membership features, no plugin ecosystem to maintain…
Tailscale's client is excellent but the control plane is hosted on Tailscale's infrastructure. Headscale is an open-source reimplementation of that control…
Immich is the leading self-hostable alternative to Google Photos / iCloud Photos — auto-backup from iOS and Android, face detection, search, shared albums…
Jellyfin is the leading open-source media server — fork of Emby, alternative to Plex, no licensing fees, no central account requirement. Stream your own…
Mastodon is the most-self-hosted Fediverse server. It works fine for a single user; it scales reasonably to a few hundred active users on a single VPS with…
Matrix Synapse is the most-deployed Matrix homeserver. It runs as a single VPS server fine; the failure modes are usually either federation traffic surprising…
n8n is the open-source Zapier — a visual workflow builder for chaining together APIs, webhooks, databases, and 400+ pre-built integrations. Self-host on a 2 GB…
Nextcloud is the most common "file sync + collaboration" self-host. The default tutorial install works for a couple of users and a small library but falls over…
Paperless-ngx turns a pile of scanned PDFs into a searchable, taggable document archive. OCR runs on every document; web UI lets you filter by tag…
Plausible is a privacy-focused web analytics tool: no cookies, no personal data collection, GDPR/CCPA-compliant by design. It self-hosts cleanly on a single…
Healthchecks is the "dead man's switch" pattern as a service — your scheduled job pings a URL when it succeeds; if the URL doesn't get pinged within the…
Uptime Kuma is the open-source answer to UptimeRobot / StatusCake / Pingdom — a self-hosted monitoring tool with a clean web UI, HTTP/TCP/ping/keyword checks…
Vaultwarden is a lightweight Bitwarden-compatible server in Rust — works with all the official Bitwarden clients (browser extension, mobile apps, desktop), but…
Vikunja is a self-hostable task manager with projects, kanban boards, gantt charts, sharing, reminders, and decent mobile clients. Closest to Todoist's feature…
Tailscale handles WireGuard mesh networking transparently — every node sees every other node, NAT punching is automatic, you barely think about it…