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 How to Choose Which Self-Hosted App Fits Your Needs

With dozens of self-hosted alternatives to popular SaaS tools available, choosing the right one...

 How to Install Changedetection.io (Website Change Monitoring)

Changedetection.io monitors web pages for changes and notifies you when they occur — useful...

 How to Install Discourse Forum Software

Discourse is a modern, feature-rich, self-hosted forum platform used by many open-source projects...

 How to Install Excalidraw (Self-Hosted Collaborative Whiteboard)

Excalidraw is a virtual whiteboard tool for sketching diagrams, wireframes, and collaborative...

 How to Install Firefly III (Self-Hosted Personal Finance)

Firefly III is a comprehensive, self-hosted personal finance manager — tracking income,...

 How to Install FreshRSS (Self-Hosted RSS Reader)

FreshRSS is a lightweight, self-hosted RSS/Atom feed reader — keeping you independent from...

 How to Install Ghost CMS on a VPS

Ghost is a modern, fast, purpose-built platform for blogging and newsletters — a lighter,...

 How to Install GitLab CE on a VPS

GitLab Community Edition is a full-featured, self-hosted DevOps platform — Git repository...

 How to Install Gitea (Lightweight Git Server)

Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service — a much lower-resource alternative to...

 How to Install Homepage (Self-Hosted Dashboard)

Homepage is a customizable, self-hosted start page/dashboard — aggregating links, service...

 How to Install Immich (Self-Hosted Photo Backup)

Immich is a self-hosted photo and video backup solution with mobile app support — providing...

 How to Install Jenkins for CI/CD on a VPS

Jenkins is a widely-used, highly extensible automation server for building CI/CD pipelines...

 How to Install Kanboard (Self-Hosted Project Management)

Kanboard is a simple, lightweight, self-hosted Kanban board application — a focused project...

 How to Install Linkwarden (Self-Hosted Bookmark Manager)

Linkwarden is a self-hosted bookmark manager that archives full page content (not just the link)...

 How to Install Matomo Analytics

Matomo (formerly Piwik) is a full-featured, self-hosted web analytics platform offering deeper...

 How to Install Mealie (Self-Hosted Recipe Manager)

Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner — import recipes from around the...

 How to Install Metabase for Business Intelligence

Metabase is a self-hosted business intelligence tool that lets non-technical users explore data...

 How to Install Nextcloud on a VPS with Docker

Nextcloud is a self-hosted file sync, sharing, and collaboration platform — a...

 How to Install Outline (Self-Hosted Wiki/Knowledge Base)

Outline is a polished, self-hosted team wiki and knowledge base — a self-hosted alternative...

 How to Install Paperless-ngx (Document Management)

Paperless-ngx transforms scanned documents and PDFs into a searchable, tagged, self-hosted...

 How to Install Plausible Analytics (Privacy-Friendly Web Analytics)

Plausible is a lightweight, privacy-focused, self-hosted web analytics platform — a...

 How to Install Rocket.Chat for Team Communication

Rocket.Chat is a self-hosted team messaging platform — a Slack alternative you fully...

 How to Install Stirling-PDF (Self-Hosted PDF Tools)

Stirling-PDF is a self-hosted, all-in-one PDF manipulation tool — merge, split, compress,...

 How to Install Uptime Kuma (Self-Hosted Uptime Monitoring)

Uptime Kuma is a friendly, self-hosted alternative to commercial uptime monitoring services...

 How to Install Vaultwarden (Self-Hosted Bitwarden)

Vaultwarden is a lightweight, unofficial server implementation compatible with Bitwarden clients...

 How to Install Wallabag (Self-Hosted Read-It-Later)

Wallabag saves articles for later reading, stripping ads and clutter, and works entirely...

 How to Install n8n for Workflow Automation

n8n is a self-hosted workflow automation tool — connecting apps and APIs through a visual...

 How to Keep Self-Hosted Applications Updated Safely

Running many self-hosted applications means many separate update processes to manage —...

 How to Set Up a Minecraft Server on a VPS

Running your own Minecraft server gives you full control over mods, plugins, and world settings....