My Awesome-Selfhosted List 😎

This list contains selfhosted tools that I use or have used myself (private and at work). I do not take any responsibility for the security of the listed software and for any damage that may occur.

Table of contents

• Analytics
• Communication 📬
• Media 📽️
• Monitoring & Status ✅
• Password Managers 🔑
• Security 🛡️
• Smart Home 🏠
• Software Development
• VPN
• Other

Tools

Analytics

• Aptabase - Open Source alternative to Google Firebase Analytics. (Source)
• Umami - A simple, privacy-focused web analytics solution (Source)

Communication 📬

• Mailcow - Mail server suite with a modern web ui for administration and everything you could need (Source) ❤️
• Typebot - Awesome conversational apps builder (FAQ, Customer Support, Quiz ...) (Source)

Media 📽️📄

• Immich - Selfhosted Google Photos alternative (Source)
• Jellyfin - Multimedia suite for movies, shows, music, books ... (Source)
• Paperless-ngx - Great open-source document management system (Source)

Monitoring & Status ✅

• Grafana - Create awesome graphical dashboards of data from different sources (Source)
• Netdata - Real-time performance and health monitoring for your infrastructure (Source)
• Uptime Kuma - A self-hosted monitoring tool like "Uptime Robot"

Password Managers 🔑

• Vaultwarden - Lightweight Bitwarden server with full support for all Bitwarden apps and browser extensions (inkl. premium features)

Security 🛡️

• CrowdSec - Modern Intrusion Prevention System with crowdsourced IP blacklist - a great alternative to Fail2ban (Source) ⭐

Smart Home 🏠

• Home Assistant - Open source home automation platform (Source)
• Node-RED - Low code Smart Home automation using Web-UI (Source)

Software Development

• Gitea - Simple, self-hostable Git repository management with a great container and package registry (Source) 🫖
• Gitlab CE - Git repository management with Issues, Container Registry CI/CD ... (Source)
• GitLab Runner - For running Gitlabs CI/CD jobs (Source)
• Sentry - Application Performance Monitoring & Error Tracking (Source)

VPN & Tunnel

• sish - HTTP(S)/WS(S)/TCP Tunnels to localhost using only SSH
• WireGuard Easy (wg-easy) - Easy WireGuard setup and modern Web-UI for administration

Other

• acme.sh - Linux shell script for issuing and renewing ssl certs with support for Letsencrypt wildcard certs
• borgmatic - Simple, configuration-driven backup software for Linux (Source)
• Budibase - Low code platform for creating internal tools (Source)
• Homer - A simple static homepage for your apps 🍩