Best Self-hosted Infrastructure & Operations tools in 2026

Self-hosted port inventory to document which services use which ports across servers and VMs, helping prevent conflicts and keep infrastructure organized.

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Device42+4

Open source game server hosting and management tool with a web dashboard, file manager, real-time status, and user permissions for Minecraft and other multiplayer servers...

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Pterodactyl Panel (Cloud)+4

Lightweight PHP file manager with ShareX support, multi-user UI, and multiple backends (local, S3, Google Cloud, Azure, Dropbox, FTP).

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Dropbox+11

Developer-first platform for durable workflow automation and orchestration, with code-based workflows, triggers, integrations, and API-first execution.

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Zapier+15

Self-hostable domain portfolio manager that auto-fetches DNS/WHOIS/SSL data, tracks changes, monitors uptime, and sends configurable renewal and security alerts.

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Domain-Monitor+8

Self-hosted web app to monitor Docker images and automate container updates across one or multiple hosts, with scheduling, per-container policies, and notifications.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+8

bewCloud is a modern, lightweight alternative to Nextcloud/ownCloud for managing files, photos, notes and news in a simple web interface.

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Google Drive+19

Doco-CD is a lightweight GitOps continuous deployment tool that deploys and updates Docker Compose projects and Docker Swarm stacks via webhooks or polling.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+2

Self-hosted email archiving server that syncs from IMAP, stores a local compressed archive, and provides fast full-text search via Web UI and REST API.

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MailStore Server+3

DweebUI is a lightweight Web UI for managing containers with a live-updating metrics dashboard, Docker Compose support, and multi-user permissions.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+4

Self-hosted, UI-focused tool to manage servers over SSH with Ansible playbooks, Docker container visibility, automations, and Prometheus-backed metrics.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+10

Open-source, self-hosted uptime monitoring tool for websites, APIs, and infrastructure with notifications, public status pages, and multiple monitor types.

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UptimeRobot+19

Lightweight self-hosted cloud storage with end-to-end encryption, chunked file transfer, private search, and secure share links via a web UI.

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Dropbox+15

Open-source web app to create, edit, visualize, and share Docker Compose files with an interactive diagram-based GUI and import/export support.

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Docker+2

Administrative web interface for managing, monitoring, and updating Tasmota-flashed IoT devices, including device discovery, bulk actions, and OTA firmware updates.

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SONOFF Cloud (eWeLink)+13

Self-hosted web UI for managing cron jobs with human-readable schedules, script editing, live log streaming, and REST API with optional OIDC and API keys.

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Cronhub+1

A modern web UI for Borg Backup to create, schedule, monitor, and restore backups with file-level browsing, notifications, and SSH/SFTP repository support.

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BorgBase+14

Fully-replicated DNS, DHCP and TFTP server with ad‑blocking, web UI, API, Prometheus metrics and multi-site replication for small to medium networks.

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Cisco OpenDNS (Umbrella)+10

Atlas is a containerized network infrastructure visualizer that scans subnets and Docker hosts, stores results, and presents real-time graphs and dashboards for monitorin...

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Auvik+6

Self-hosted LAN caching proxy that stores game and software downloads from multiple CDNs to reduce bandwidth usage and speed up repeated installs.

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Apache HTTP Server+2

Open-source multi-channel notification service with REST API, management UI, templates and channel abstraction for email, web, push and SMS; built with ASP.NET Core and R...

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OneSignal+5

Manage Caddy 2 servers from a modern web dashboard with Caddyfile editing, authentication, audit logs, API keys, and SQLite or MongoDB storage.

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Caddy Cloud+19

Privacy-first, cookie-less open-source web analytics with session analysis, real-user performance monitoring, error tracking and feature flags. Self-hostable or available...

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Google Analytics+19

Real-time monitoring platform for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby with session tracking, playback analytics, stream maps, alerts, and account-sharing detection rules.

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Tautulli+1

Notifiarr is a unified client that delivers configurable notifications, health checks, and automation for homelab apps like Plex and the *Arr stack via Discord.

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Healthchecks.io+8

High-performance Rust proxy supporting HTTP/SOCKS5 forwarding, transparent proxying, TLS MITM, ICAP integration, ACLs, auth, and observability features.

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Bright Data+10

Open-source web UI to generate, assign, and organize port numbers across multiple hosts.

Dokemon is a Docker container management web UI that lets you manage multiple Docker hosts, deploy Compose projects, and administer containers, images, volumes, and netwo...

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+12

A self-hosted service that monitors changes on web pages and notifies you via email or messaging apps using YAML configurations.

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Visualping+7

Self-hosted monitoring tool for uptime, TCP/HTTP checks, Docker monitoring, multi-user dashboards, incident management, SSO and alerting integrations.

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UptimeRobot+16