Categories
🏠 Free Self-hosted Server Software
Self-hosting is not about saving money — it is about services that cannot be shut down and data that cannot be held hostage by a price hike. Everything here runs on an old PC or a NAS: cloud storage, photo libraries, smart home hubs, password vaults, network-wide ad blocking. Most ship official Docker images and come up with a single command.
19 tools
Headscale
Run the Tailscale control server yourself, no official account needed
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
Linkwarden
Bookmarks that keep a screenshot and PDF, even after the page is gone
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
Mealie
A shared family recipe library, weekly meal plan and shopping list
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
Memos
Self-hosted quick notes — open it and write, no titles or folders
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
ntfy
Push a notification to your phone with one line of curl
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
Audiobookshelf
Your own audiobook server, with progress that follows you between devices
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
Caddy
Two lines of config, and HTTPS certificates obtain and renew themselves
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
Karakeep
A self-hosted bookmark vault that keeps the page, not a link that will rot
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
Nginx Proxy Manager
Reverse proxies and certificates set up by clicking, without touching an Nginx config
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
Portainer CE
Manage containers from a browser — logs, shell, config, restart
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
AdGuard Home
Network-wide ad blocking, with encrypted DNS thrown in
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
Gitea
Your own GitHub, from a single executable
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
Home Assistant
One interface for every smart-home brand — and it keeps working offline
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
Immich
Google Photos on your own disk, with your disk as the storage limit
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
Nextcloud
Everything a cloud drive does, on a disk you own
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
Paperless-ngx
Scan the paper in once, then search for it instead of digging through drawers
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
Pi-hole
One device, and every screen in the house loses its ads
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
Uptime Kuma
Know the moment your site goes down, without paying for monitoring
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
Vaultwarden
Run your own password vault server — the official clients still work
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform