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A self-hosted instance of the popular hand-drawn-style whiteboard tool for sketching diagrams, wireframes, and quick collaborative drawings.

Fail2ban watches service log files for repeated authentication failures and automatically bans offending IPs via firewall rules, using per-service 'jails' you enable in jail.local.

A free, open-source, self-hosted web UI for browsing, uploading, and managing files on a server -- a lightweight alternative to a full NAS OS when you just need remote file access.

Flarum is a modern, lightweight forum platform installed with Composer, then finished through a browser-based setup wizard.

Forgejo is a self-hosted, community-driven Git service forked from Gitea, offering repositories, issues, pull requests, CI integration, and packages without depending on any single company.

FreeIPA bundles LDAP, Kerberos, DNS, and a certificate authority into a single integrated identity management domain controller for Linux environments.

A self-hosted RSS/Atom feed aggregator with a fast, customizable interface, multi-user support, and extensions for things like full-text article fetching.

A self-hosted network video recorder with real-time AI object detection — it only alerts and saves clips for actual people, cars, or animals, instead of every motion event a plain security camera would trigger on.

GLPI is a mature, open-source IT service management and asset management platform combining a CMDB, help desk ticketing, and inventory tracking in one web application.

Ghost is a fast, open-source publishing platform for blogs and newsletters; its officially recommended self-hosted install path is Ghost-CLI on Ubuntu with Node.js, MySQL, and Nginx.

A free, open-source publishing platform built specifically for blogging and newsletters -- a faster, more focused alternative to WordPress when you don't need a general-purpose CMS.

Install Git and generate an SSH key pair for authenticating with GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket without typing a password on every push.

Self-hosted Git repository management, CI/CD, and DevOps platform — the open-source core of GitLab.com.

Lightweight, self-hosted Git service — a much smaller-footprint alternative to GitLab for teams that don't need its full DevOps suite.

A cross-platform, real-time system monitoring tool (CPU, RAM, disk, network, sensors, Docker containers) with both a terminal UI and an optional web interface.

Gotify is a simple, self-hosted server for sending and receiving push notifications, distributed as a small Go binary or an official multi-arch Docker image.

Open-source dashboards and visualization for metrics, logs, and traces from any data source.

Grav is a fast, flat-file CMS that needs no database — it can be installed from a downloadable ZIP, via Composer, or by cloning its GitHub repository directly.

Centralized log management: collect, search, and alert on logs from your whole infrastructure.

Grocy is a self-hosted 'ERP for your household' that tracks groceries, expiry dates, a shopping list, chores, and equipment through a single web app.

Harbor is a CNCF graduated, enterprise-grade container image registry that adds role-based access control, vulnerability scanning, image signing, and replication on top of the OCI distribution spec.

Headscale is an open-source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale coordination server, letting you run your own private WireGuard-based mesh network without Tailscale's SaaS control plane.

Healthchecks is a cron job and scheduled task monitoring service that alerts you when a periodic task fails to check in on time, officially self-hostable via a documented Docker Compose setup.

A real-time collaborative Markdown editor that lets multiple people write and edit the same document simultaneously, similar to HackMD but fully self-hosted.

Open-source home automation platform — control and automate smart-home devices from every ecosystem in one place.

The Container installation method for Home Assistant — running just Home Assistant Core as a Docker container on an existing Linux server, alongside other services, instead of dedicating a whole machine to Home Assistant OS.

The dedicated, appliance-style operating system for Home Assistant -- a free, open-source home automation hub -- flashed straight to an SD card, USB drive, or run as a VM.

The de facto package manager for MacOS -- installs command-line tools and apps that Apple doesn't ship, via a single terminal command.