Self-hosted projects using Linux

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage server for building private cloud storage, data lakes, and scalable storage backends for applications.

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Amazon S3+7

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

rclone is a CLI tool to sync, copy, mount, and serve files across cloud storage providers and standard protocols like S3, WebDAV, FTP, and SFTP.

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GoodSync+8

Jellyfin is a free, self-hosted media server to organize, manage, and stream movies, TV, music, and photos to web, mobile, and TV clients.

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Plex+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.

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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

SRS (Simple Realtime Server) is a high-efficiency media server supporting RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, SRT, MPEG-DASH, and GB28181 for real-time streaming.

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Wowza Streaming Cloud+8

Run a WireGuard VPN server with an easy web admin UI to manage clients, generate configs and QR codes, and monitor connections and traffic.

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Tailscale+14

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

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

OpenVPN is a widely used open-source VPN daemon providing TLS/SSL-based secure tunneling, flexible client-server and site-to-site modes, and cross-platform support.

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OpenVPN CloudConnexa+18

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

webhook is a lightweight Go server for creating HTTP endpoints that trigger scripts or shell commands with rule-based request validation.

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Webhook.site+2

Self-hosted web interface to manage Nginx configs, reload safely, issue Let’s Encrypt certificates, view logs, monitor server stats, and manage multiple nodes.

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NGINX Management Suite+4

Janus WebRTC Server is a lightweight, general-purpose WebRTC gateway for building real-time audio/video applications via plugins and a JSON-based API.

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Ant Media Server Cloud+2

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

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.

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Cloudron+4

ejabberd is an Erlang/OTP-based messaging server providing XMPP chat and presence, MQTT broker capabilities for IoT, and SIP services for real-time communications.

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CloudMQTT+11

OpenMediaVault is a Debian-based network-attached storage (NAS) solution with a web UI, built-in file sharing services, and a modular plugin system for home and small off...

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QNAP QTS+2

The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, open-source turn-based tactical strategy game with rich campaigns, multiplayer, a map editor, and extensive modding support.

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

Self-hostable online office suite for viewing and collaboratively editing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, and forms with strong OOXML compatibility.

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ONLYOFFICE Docs Cloud+13

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 product analytics and engagement platform for mobile, web, desktop, and connected devices, with dashboards, crash reporting, push notifications, and privacy t...

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Countly+17

Open-source product analytics platform with SDKs for mobile, web and desktop; provides dashboards, events, crash reporting, messaging, A/B testing and APIs.

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Mixpanel+19

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

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

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

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