Best Self-hosted Infrastructure & Operations tools in 2026

HAProxy is a fast, reliable reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP and HTTP applications, providing high availability, TLS termination, health checks, and traffic routin...

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HAProxy Enterprise+10

Open-source runbook automation platform to schedule jobs, orchestrate workflows, and provide controlled self-service operations via web UI and API.

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PagerDuty Rundeck+11

Self-hosted Node.js server for remote monitoring, web-based remote desktop, terminal, file access and multi-DB device management.

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TeamViewer+14

Open-source DNS proxy and network-wide ad-blocker for local networks. Supports DoH/DoT, per-client rules, caching, deep CNAME inspection, Prometheus metrics, Docker and H...

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NextDNS+7

DietPi is an ultra-lightweight Debian-based OS for SBCs and small servers, featuring menu-driven system configuration and an optimized one-command software installer.

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Armbian+18

Tinyproxy is a small, efficient HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX systems, designed for low resource usage with access controls, filtering, and optional reverse/transpare...

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Charles Proxy+9

Cross-platform backup tool with lock-free deduplication, encryption, snapshots, and pruning, supporting local disk, SFTP, and many cloud storage backends.

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Duplicacy (Commercial)+15

Zabbix is an open-source monitoring and observability platform for networks, servers, VMs, applications, and cloud infrastructure, with alerting and dashboards.

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+17

Webmin is a web-based server administration control panel for Unix-like systems, offering modular management of users, services, storage, and common server software.

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cPanel+7

Cosmos Cloud is a security-focused self-hosting platform that provides an app store, reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS, SSO/MFA, container management, backups, and monit...

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Cloudron+18

Self-hosted network visibility and presence scanner that discovers connected devices and alerts on new, unknown, or changed hosts across your LAN/Wi‑Fi.

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Fing+8

Open-source Node.js distributed task scheduler with web UI, real-time logs, multi-server failover, REST API and plugin support for arbitrary scripts.

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Control-M (BMC)+6

Laravel-based app that schedules Ookla Speedtest checks, records download/upload/ping/packet-loss metrics, visualizes historical performance, and sends alerts.

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Speedtest by Ookla+3

Backrest provides a web UI to manage Restic backups across multiple repositories, with scheduling, restores, and notifications.

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Acronis Cyber Protect+13

Self-hosted backup automation with a modern web UI, built on restic. Schedule, monitor, and restore encrypted backups from local or remote volumes to multiple repositorie...

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Duplicacy (Commercial)+15

Open-source database backup tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, and MongoDB with scheduling, encrypted archives, multiple storage backends, and notifications.

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Veeam Backup & Replication+13

A general-purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool for homelabs, offering web UI, ACME/TLS, stream proxy, plugins and realtime monitoring.

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ngrok+16

LinuxGSM is a command-line tool to install, update, monitor, back up, and manage 100+ Linux dedicated game servers with automation and alerts.

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AMP by CubeCoders+1

Self-hosted status page system with built-in monitoring, incident tracking, and customizable public status pages for websites and APIs.

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Atlassian Statuspage+19

Pomerium is an identity-aware access proxy that provides zero trust, per-request authorization to internal web apps and services without a traditional VPN.

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Cloudflare Access+12

Unregistry is a lightweight OCI image registry plus Docker CLI plugin that pushes images directly to remote Docker hosts over SSH, transferring only missing layers.

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Docker Hub+4

Deploy and scale Docker Compose apps across multiple servers with automatic WireGuard networking, service discovery, load balancing, and HTTPS—without Kubernetes overhead...

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Railway+11

sish is an open-source Serveo/ngrok alternative that exposes local HTTP(S), WebSockets, and TCP services to the internet using SSH reverse tunnels.

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ngrok+3

Diun monitors Docker/OCI images in registries and sends notifications when tags or digests change, with multiple providers and flexible scheduling.

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JFrog Artifactory+1

Standards-based validating recursive DNS resolver with DNSSEC validation, DNS-over-TLS/HTTPS support and configurable caching for privacy and performance.

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Cloudflare DNS+9

OPNsense is an open source FreeBSD-based firewall and routing platform with a web GUI, API, VPN, traffic shaping, and security features for networks and homelabs.

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Fortinet FortiGate+12

Open source Google Drive-like cloud storage with uploads, sharing, media gallery, and optional AES-256 encryption, backed by MongoDB and pluggable storage.

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Google Drive+16

Self-hosted Heroku/Netlify-style PaaS for Kubernetes with GitOps pipelines, templates, add-ons, logs, and SSO—deploy from source or Docker without Helm charts.

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Heroku+12

Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP reverse proxy cache for accelerating web applications and APIs with flexible caching rules and detailed request logging.

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Cloudflare CDN+5

13 Feet Ladder is a self-hosted 12ft.io-style server that retrieves readable article pages by requesting them as a search crawler, helping reduce paywalls and clutter.

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ngrok