Self-hosted Self-Hosting Platforms & Control Panels tools

Open-source, self-hostable PaaS to deploy websites, full-stack apps, databases, and Docker services on your own servers with Git-based CI/CD workflows.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Heroku+12

Self-hostable internet OS that provides a web desktop, cloud storage, and an app platform for files, web apps, and remote-work style workflows.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Drive+19

Open-source personal cloud system with a web dashboard, app store, and file management to run and manage Docker apps on home servers and SBCs.

Apache-2.0Slowing down

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Cloudron+19

Dokku is a self-hosted, Docker-based mini PaaS that lets you deploy Heroku-style apps via Git push, using buildpacks or Dockerfiles with plugin-managed services.

MITActively maintained

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Dokku Cloud+10

Dockge is a self-hosted, stack-oriented manager for Docker Compose files, providing a responsive web UI to edit, deploy, update, and monitor compose.yaml stacks.

MITActively maintained

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+15

CapRover is an open-source platform to deploy, manage and scale apps using Docker and nginx with a web UI and CLI, automatic SSL, one-click databases and clustering support.

Actively maintained

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Coolify Cloud+19

umbrelOS is a home server operating system that lets you self-host popular apps via a built-in app store, with one-click installs on Raspberry Pi, x86, or Umbrel Home.

Actively maintained

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Umbrel+15

Runtipi is a homeserver orchestrator with a web interface and app store for one-click installation and management of self-hosted services using Docker.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Umbrel+16

Runtipi is a personal homeserver platform that lets you install and manage self-hosted apps with one-click installs, powered by Docker and a simple web UI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Cloudron+14

Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite that lets you install, run, and securely share many web apps with unified access control and sandboxing.

Actively maintained

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Cloudron+4

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.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Armbian+18

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 monitoring.

Actively maintained

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Cloudron+18

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

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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cPanel+7

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.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Heroku+12

High-performance reverse proxy and container orchestrator with Web UI, automatic Docker/Podman route discovery, idle-sleep, access control, and automated Let's Encrypt support.

Actively maintained

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Cloudflare Tunnel+19

High-performance reverse proxy for self-hosted apps with Web UI, Docker/Podman auto-routing, HTTPS via Let's Encrypt, access control, and OIDC/ForwardAuth support.

Actively maintained

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Traefik Cloud+5

Self-hosted web UI that exposes YAML-defined shell commands as buttons, dashboards and API endpoints with ACLs, auth and logging for safe, repeatable server operations.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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PagerDuty Rundeck+11

Ansible-NAS is an Ansible playbook collection that turns an Ubuntu server into a NAS-style home server by deploying and configuring many self-hosted apps via Docker.

MITSlowing down

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform+7

Open-source, self-hosted tool to provision servers and deploy PHP apps with database, SSL, firewall, cron, services, monitoring, workflows, plugins, and API.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Laravel Forge+11

Open-source Debian-based OS and control panel that simplifies installing, managing and securing web apps, mail and services via a web admin and app catalog.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Cloudron+19

Prebuilt Nextcloud appliance and management tools for Raspberry Pi, Odroid, VMs and LXC; includes Apache, PHP, MariaDB, Redis, web panel and backup utilities.

Actively maintained

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Google Drive+17

Canine is an open source Kubernetes deployment platform that provides a Heroku-like PaaS experience with Git-driven deploys, web UI management, and built-in SSL and secrets.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Heroku+10

DockSTARTer is a menu-driven CLI that installs Docker and helps configure and run curated Docker Compose apps for homelab and self-hosted setups.

MITActively maintained

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+16

Websoft9 is a web-based Linux panel and lightweight PaaS for deploying, running, and operating hundreds of open-source applications on your own server.

Actively maintained

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Cloudron+19

Open source Linux server OS with a web UI and marketplace for installing, configuring, monitoring, and backing up self-hosted services.

MITActively maintained

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Umbrel+15

CloudPanel is a lightweight server control panel for managing PHP, Node.js, Python, static sites, and reverse proxies with SSL/TLS and performance-focused defaults.

Actively maintained

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CloudPanel+12

Open source web panel to install, run, and manage multiple game servers from one central UI with multi-user access and support for popular server types.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Pterodactyl Panel (Cloud)+4

ZaneOps is a self-hosted open-source PaaS to deploy and manage web apps, static sites, databases, and background workers with Git-based workflows and built-in HTTPS.

Actively maintained

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Render+15

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.

AGPL-3.0Likely dormant

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Pterodactyl Panel (Cloud)+4

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

Slowing down

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Caddy Cloud+19