A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

awesome-selhosted maintainer here. This critique comes up often (and I sometimes agree...) but it's hard to properly "fix":

Any rule that enforces some kind of "quality" guideline has to be explicitly written to the contribution guidelines to not waste submitters' (and maintainers) time.

As you can see there are already minimal rules in place (software has to be actively maintained, properly documented, first release must be older than 4 months, must of course be fully Free and Open-source...). Anything more is very hard to word objectively or is plain unfair - in the last 7 years (!) maintaining the list I've spent countless hours thinking about it.

For example, rejecting new projects because an existing/already listed one effectively does the same thing would give an unfair advantage to older projects, effectively "locking out" newer ones. Moreover, you will rarely find two projects that have the exact same feature set, workflow, release frequency... and every user has different needs and requirements, so yeah, users of the list are expected to do some research to find the best solution to their particular needs.

This is of course, less true for some categories (why are there so many pastebins??). But again, it's hard to find clear and objective criteria to determine what deserves to be listed and what does not.

If we started rejecting projects because "I don't have a need for it" or "I already use a somewhat equivalent solution and am not going to switch", that would discard 90% of entries in the list (and not necessarily the worst ones). I do check that projects being added are in a "production-ready" state and ask more questions during reviews if needed. But it's hard to be more selective than we already are, without falling in subjective "I like/I don't like" reasoning (let's ban all Nodejs-based projects, npm is horrible and a security liability. Let's also ban all projects that are so convoluted and impossible to build and install properly that Docker is the only installation option. Follow my thoughts?)

Also, Free Software has always been very fragmented, which is both a strength and a weakness. The list simply reflects that.

Another idea I contemplated is linking each project to a "review" thread for the software in question. But I will not host or moderate such a forum/review board, and it will be heavily brigaded by PR departments looking to promote their companies software.

A HTML version is coming out soon (based on the same data) that will hopefully make the list easier to browse.

I am open to other suggestions, keeping in mind the points above...

250+ self hostable apps

1268 exactly.

It’s covers a pretty wide range of topics hence the bigger number…

Either way, would you refuse a library because it had too many books or would you use a searching/organizational system to locate what you want

Do you think it’s fair to say that one size does not fit all, so a giant list of self hosted options for people to choose from, is itself awesome?

The benefit of self hosting boils down to being able to make your own choices. Having a full list of options to choose from and make your own decision fits this community better (for better or worse) than someone else curating that thing for you.

And a lot of the best options per category are at the bottom of the list.

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I'd rather a bulk list of everything that can be set up on a home lab, personally. I'll decide what is and isn't useful to me.

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I was already sold, you don't need to keep pitching more reasons to check it out.

He's not kidding. I've lost everything!

Haha! I lost at least an hour this morning. And plan on losing more later…

I don't know what you're talking about cough I certainly haven't installed a handful of apps from these lists since I discovered them.

Haha! I lost at least an hour this morning. And plan on losing more later…

Edit: weird that this posted twice 🤷‍♂️

It's github. Submit a PR

Load balancers/Reverse peoxies - Caddy, Traefik.

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#web-servers -> https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin#web

Missing DNS server “blocky” which I find way better than Pi-Hole.

Listed at https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#dns

why not make a post asking for everyone’s picks!