Selfhosting is where you're hosting your own websites, apps, software, tools, and much more on your own server instead of having to rely on 3rd-party cloud providers such as Hetzner. Taking this approach to hosting gives you more control over your data and how your server or servers are managed.
When you are running multiple things on one or two servers, within your home, it's called a "Homelab" and you're "Homelabbing" at that point.
Running your own server and homelab within your home is great for privacy-conscious individuals such as myself, tech enthusiasts, small businesses, and those seeking more control of their digital life.
The following lists provided here are applications and software I've gotten comfortable with and enjoyed using over the past 3 and a half years since I started homelabbing, it's based on my experience and what fits my criteria. Some well known softwares won't be listed here, as my experience may of not been at best with them.
My criteria is that software is built in the open, respects user privacy and security, should not require a license to operate, and don't contain profanity and other minor things.
I'm also willing to test new software to selfhost, feel free to comment or message me to try out other alternatives.
There are other places to check out as well for those interesting selfhosting, such as Awesome Selfhosted, selfh.st, and other places you can find on the internet.
If you ever need help with selfhosting, you can check out the following communities:
There's also a wiki you can look into as well.
If you believe an alternative software should be added to this list, please contact me or direct message via my AlternativeTo account. I'm also available on Signal.
This lists gets updated every month at least, check back regularly.
Advanced self-hosted tool for tracking uptime across multiple services with reactive UX, interval checks, various notifications, and multi-language support.
Open-source Node.js status page tool, designed to make service monitoring and incident handling a breeze. It offers a sleek and user-friendly interface that simplifies tracking service outages and improves how we communicate during incidents. And the best part?
Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform that includes Docker statistics, historical data, and alert functions.
Open-source observability platform with uptime, alerts, incident management, status page, error and log tracking, performance, security, and test automation.
Cachet is a simple to use and easy to manage status page system and can be easily installed and used to track third party service letting your users know what's going on.
A scale-out production-ready vendor-neutral OCI-native container image/artifact registry (purely based on OCI Distribution Specification)
Logto helps you build the sign-in, auth, and user identity within minutes. We provide an OIDC-based identity service and the end-user experience with username, phone number, email, and social sign-in, for web and native apps.
hat.sh is a javascript app that provides secure file encryption using the AES-256-GCM algorithm from WebCryptoAPI provided by your browser. it was coded following the WebCrypto Documentations .
Matrix-based, open-source chat client offering secure group and direct messaging with end-to-end encryption, organized channels, minimal clutter, and modern design.
Free open-source media system alternative to proprietary options, supports Chromecast, 4K streaming, plugin extensions, with privacy focus.
Subscribe, download, and organize YouTube videos in a searchable library with playback, viewing history tracking, batch downloads, and channel management features.
Self-hosted or downloadable music player featuring MPV and web backends, smart playlist editing for Navidrome, playback scrobbling, and synchronized lyric support. Supports Navidrome, Jellyfin, and OpenSubSonic media servers.
Open source self-hosted streamer with Subsonic API compatibility, low resource usage, multi-user support, remote access, and broad audio format streaming.
A frontend alternative for TubeArchivist, built on the Astro Web Framework with Zorn integration.
AnonymousOverflow allows you to view StackOverflow threads without the cluttered interface and exposing your IP address, browsing habits and other browser fingerprint data to StackOverflow.
Priviblur is a proxy. It makes requests to Tumblr in lieu of you allowing you browse without being tracked.
Quetre is an alternative front-end to Quora. It enables you to see answers without ads, trackers, and other such bloat.
With Poke, be Anonymous watching epic videos, searching thingys on the interwebs and listening to music on poke - the free privacy front end!
An open-source, ad-free front-end to YouTube offering video downloads, audio-only mode, and subscription management without JS or registration.
Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper. Paperless-ngx forked from paperless-ng.
Indexlet is a lightweight, flat-file directory viewer designed to turn static file server into a beautiful, navigable interface. No database required, just drop it in and start browsing.
Self-hosted support desk that enables seamless management with multi-inbox, smart automation, AI-assisted responses, granular permissions, and BI dashboards.
Astuto is a free, open source, self-hosted customer feedback tool. It helps you collect, manage and prioritize feedback from your users. You can self-host your own instance or rely on a paid cloud subscription.
Campfire is an installable, self-hosted group chat system. Easily invite people. Make rooms. @mentions, DMs, and mobile support. The basics done right. And since you get the code and host it yourself, you can customize it however you’d like for your own use.
Self-hosted app for local checklists and notes with WYSIWYG editing, drag-and-drop reordering, Kanban boards, progress bars, Markdown, and sharing features.
Open source project platform with kanban boards, timeline tracking, real-time team collaboration, automation, MIT licensing, and data encryption.
Penpot is the open-source design platform for teams that design, build, and scale digital products.
linkding is a simple bookmark service that you can host yourself. It supports managing bookmarks, categorizing them with tags and has a search function. It provides a bookmarklet for quickly adding new bookmarks while browsing the web.
Self-hosted, lightweight password server compatible with Bitwarden clients, written in Rust, supporting organizations, attachments, and two-factor authentication.
Open-source password manager with AES-256 encryption and device sync. Store and access encrypted logins across platforms like iOS and Android.
SpotSpot is a simple tool for searching Spotify and downloading via YouTube (spotDL/yt-dlp).
Comments
In the Metasearch Engines section, you mentioned your fork 4get, but the repository is archived. Change the link to RaccoonShift. It has a good design.
Yeah, it's based on an older version of the codebase and finally snapped. So it's officially offline forever. I went ahead and removed the mention of my 4get instance.
Pingvin Share has been discontinued and the repository was archived in June 2025.
Could you replace Libreddit with Redlib?
Redlib