Self-hosted projects using Bash

Ollama is a local LLM runtime that lets you pull, run, and customize models, offering a CLI and REST API for chat, generation, and embeddings.

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OpenAI API+15

code-server runs Visual Studio Code in your browser, providing a remote development environment you can self-host on a VM or container and access from any device.

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Visual Studio Code+10

Open source, agentless automation engine for configuration management, app deployment, orchestration, and infrastructure provisioning using YAML playbooks over SSH.

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform+4

Pi-hole is a network-wide DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and trackers for all devices on your network, with a web dashboard, query logs, and optional DHCP server.

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AdGuard+7

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.

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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.

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Dokku Cloud+10

Production-ready mail server stack in a Docker container with SMTP, IMAP/POP3, LDAP auth, anti-spam/AV, DKIM/DMARC, and optional OAuth2 support.

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Gmail+16

Fail2Ban monitors service logs for repeated failures and automatically bans abusive IP addresses by updating firewall rules for a configurable time.

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CrowdSec

Open-source CLI for recording, replaying and live-streaming terminal sessions using lightweight asciicast files and an embeddable web player.

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Screen Studio+1

Postal is an open source mail delivery platform for sending and receiving email, with SMTP support, web-based management, and tools for running your own SendGrid-style se...

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SendGrid+10

Mail-in-a-Box is a one-click mail server appliance for Ubuntu, bundling SMTP/IMAP, webmail, DNS, TLS automation, backups, and an admin control panel.

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Microsoft Exchange Online+15

Self-hosted file sync and share platform with libraries, sharing links, versioning, and optional end-to-end encrypted libraries for private team collaboration.

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Dropbox+19

Open-source proofreading and writing assistant that checks spelling, grammar, punctuation, and style across 30+ languages, with an HTTP API for integrations.

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Grammarly+4

BorgBackup is a deduplicating backup program with authenticated encryption and compression for Unix-like systems.

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BorgBase+14

CrowdSec is an open-source security engine that detects attacks from logs and blocks malicious IPs using bouncers and community-curated threat intelligence.

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Fail2Ban+10

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.

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Umbrel+15

iodine is a DNS tunneling tool that forwards IPv4 traffic through DNS queries and replies, providing a TUN interface to route IP traffic when only DNS is allowed.

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Cloudflare Tunnel+15

OSRM is a high-performance routing engine for OpenStreetMap data, providing an HTTP API for routing, map matching, distance tables, and more.

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Mapbox+1

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

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

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

Open-source CLI task manager with tagging, projects, priorities, recurrence, filtering, extensible hooks and optional sync.

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Todoist+10

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

Open-Meteo is an open-source weather API providing hourly forecasts, historical weather, air quality and more from national weather models, with optional self-hosting.

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

Docker images providing full Linux desktop environments in your browser, with multiple distro and desktop flavors and optional GPU acceleration.

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Microsoft Remote Desktop+15

OpenZiti is an open-source zero trust networking platform that builds an identity-based overlay mesh with SDKs, tunnelers, and policy-based access controls.

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Zscaler Private Access+14

LinuxServer.io SWAG is a Docker image bundling Nginx reverse proxy, ACME certificate automation (Let’s Encrypt/ZeroSSL), optional PHP, and fail2ban intrusion prevention.

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Apache HTTP Server+9

Lightweight companion container to back up Docker volumes on a schedule or on demand, with rotation, encryption, notifications, and support for multiple storage backends.

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Acronis Cyber Protect+9

OvenMediaEngine (OME) is a sub-second latency live streaming server that ingests multiple protocols, transcodes to ABR, and delivers streams via WebRTC and Low-Latency HL...

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Wowza Streaming Cloud+15