Self-hosted projects built with Perl

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

Actively maintained

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CrowdSec

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

LGPL-2.1Actively maintained

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Grammarly+4

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

ZoneMinder is a free, open-source video surveillance system for Linux that captures, analyzes, records, and monitors cameras via a web interface.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Blue Iris+10

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

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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DynDNS+5

ZNC is an advanced IRC bouncer that stays connected to IRC networks, letting you reconnect from one or more clients and replay buffered messages you missed.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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IRCCloud+3

SmokePing is an active network monitoring tool that measures latency and packet loss over time, stores results in RRD, and visualizes them via a web UI with alerting.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Pingdom+15

Open-source music server that streams local libraries, internet radio, and streaming services to Squeezebox hardware and software players like Squeezelite.

Actively maintained

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Roon+12

Enterprise-grade, disk-based backup server for Windows, Linux, and macOS clients using SMB, rsync, or tar over SSH, with deduplication and web-based restores.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Veeam Backup & Replication+10

Convos is a multiuser web IRC client with a built-in persistent bouncer, chat history, theming, rich formatting, and optional video chat.

Artistic-2.0Actively maintained

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IRCCloud+3

Request Tracker (RT) is an enterprise-grade ticketing and issue tracking system with email integration, automation, workflows, reporting, and optional asset management.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Zendesk+19

Bugzilla is an open source, web-based bug and issue tracker for managing products, components, milestones, and releases with powerful search and workflows.

MPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Bugzilla Hosted+8

Cyrus IMAP is a secure, scalable mail server providing IMAP/JMAP email plus CalDAV/CardDAV contacts and calendars, with ACLs, quotas, search, and replication.

Actively maintained

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Microsoft Exchange Online+18

Koha is a free and open source integrated library system (ILS) for managing library collections, cataloging, circulation, patrons, and online public access.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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ByWater Solutions (Hosted Koha)+6

Open source web-based double-entry accounting and ERP with invoicing, order processing, inventory, projects, and robust PostgreSQL-backed reporting.

Actively maintained

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QuickBooks Online+14

Perl-based web logfile analyzer that produces graphical reports (visitors, pages, hits, referrers, errors) from server logs via CLI or CGI.

Slowing down

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Matomo Analytics (Cloud)+10

Open-source web-based ticketing system for customer support and IT service management with automation, knowledgebase, and CMDB extension.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Zendesk+19

Open-source mailing list manager for automating subscriptions, moderation, archives and message distribution with web, CLI and SOAP interfaces for large lists.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Groups.io

Perl-based wiki engine focused on high-quality publishing, bookbuilding, EPUB/PDF output, Git and flat-file backends, and multi-database support.

Actively maintained

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XWiki Cloud+13

A scalable open-source integrated library system (ILS) for cataloging, circulation, acquisitions, patron management and consortial workflows with web and OPAC interfaces.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Follett Destiny Library Manager+6

Oddmuse is a single-file Perl wiki engine that stores pages on the filesystem, offers page versioning, themes and extensions, and runs under CGI or Mojolicious.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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Wikipedia+10

Perl-based institutional repository platform for higher education. Manages research outputs with flexible metadata, workflows, OAI-PMH support and integrations.

LGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Digital Commons+6

Courier is an integrated mail server suite providing ESMTP (MTA), IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing lists with optional LDAP/MySQL/PostgreSQL-backed virtual accounts.

Activity unknown

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Microsoft Exchange Online+14

FHEM is a Perl-based open-source home automation server with a modular architecture, web frontends, and broad device protocol support.

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Samsung SmartThings+15

Open-source assessment software for creating, delivering, and grading quizzes, exams, and surveys, with question banks, interoperability formats, and built-in gradebook analytics.

Activity unknown

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Gradescope+8