Self-hosted projects using Linux

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

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

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

Judge0 CE is an open-source, sandboxed online code execution system with an HTTP JSON API for running untrusted code in many programming languages at scale.

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.

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform+7

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

Open-source TV streaming server and DVR for Linux supporting DVB/ATSC/IPTV inputs and HTSP/HTTP streaming.

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Channels DVR+3

ddclient is a Perl-based Dynamic DNS client that detects IP changes and updates DNS records across many supported DDNS and DNS provider APIs.

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DynDNS+5

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

Open-source PBX and telephony toolkit for building communications applications; modular C-based engine with SIP, WebRTC, RTP, ARI/AMI APIs and hardware support.

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3CX+19

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

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Google Drive+17

Canarytokens generates honeytokens (URLs, files, credentials, docs) that alert you when an attacker touches them, helping detect breaches early.

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Thinkst Canary+2

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

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Cloudflare Tunnel+19

Kamailio is an open source SIP signaling server for scalable VoIP and real-time communication platforms, supporting routing, load balancing, WebRTC, and IMS/VoLTE.

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AudioCodes Mediant Session Border Controller (SBC)+6

Headless Steam Docker image for remote game streaming with noVNC web desktop, Proton support, and NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU acceleration, compatible with Steam Link and Moonli...

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Shadow PC+14

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

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+16

Garage is a lightweight, S3-compatible distributed object storage service built for small-to-medium self-hosted, geo-distributed deployments with strong resilience.

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Amazon S3+6

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

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Cloudron+19

uStreamer is a lightweight, fast MJPEG-over-HTTP streamer for V4L2 capture devices, optimized for high-FPS HDMI/VGA capture and PiKVM-style KVM over IP use.

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AXIS Camera Station

Carrier-grade SIP/VoIP/WebRTC packet capture and monitoring platform with real-time search, correlation, and troubleshooting workflows using the HEP/EEP protocol.

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ThousandEyes VoIP Monitoring+3

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.

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CloudPanel+12

Open-source multiplayer modification and engine for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that adds synchronized networking, Lua scripting, resource-based content, and a server b...

Flint is a lightweight KVM/libvirt VM management tool with an embedded web UI, CLI, and REST API, designed for fast provisioning and low overhead.

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VMware ESXi+4

Open-source lightweight music server offering web-based streaming, tagging, recommendations, Subsonic API compatibility and audio transcoding for personal music collectio...

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Plex+9

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

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Umbrel+15

OpenPrinting CUPS is a standards-based printing system providing IPP print services, printer administration, and command-line tools for Linux and Unix-like systems.

Daemon that monitors download folders and Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr/Readarr to automatically extract archives, move files for import, and remove extracted artifacts.

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WinRAR+3

Open-source web app to collect, process, store, and visualize energy, temperature, and other environmental time-series data with dashboards, graphs, and an API.

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InfluxDB Cloud+14

InspIRCd is a modular, lightweight Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server with a flexible module system, designed for stable and performant IRC network deployments.

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IRCCloud+3

moOde Audio is a Raspberry Pi music player and streamer with a responsive WebUI, MPD-based playback, multiroom audio, and support for popular network renderers and output...

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Volumio Premium (MyVolumio)+5