Guides

ABillS (AsmodeuS Billing System) is a mature, open-source ISP billing and subscriber-management platform for dialup, PPPoE/PPTP/L2TP, hotspot, VoIP and IPTV services, built around Perl, MySQL, and FreeRADIUS.

The full process for installing an app from a downloaded .apk file instead of the Play Store -- enabling installs from unknown sources, running the installer, and what to do if Android blocks it.

Sideloading on a TV device works differently from a phone -- no touchscreen file manager by default, so this covers the two common methods: a file-manager app, or pushing the APK over the network with ADB.

AdGuard Home is a network-wide DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and trackers for every device on your network at the DNS level, with optional DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS and DHCP server features.

Akaunting is a free, open-source online accounting software for small businesses and freelancers, with an official Docker Compose setup that includes a guided web setup wizard.

A self-hosted server for organizing and streaming your audiobook and podcast collection, with native mobile apps for offline listening.

An open-source client for the Google Play Store that lets you download Play Store apps anonymously or with your own Google account, without installing the actual Play Store/Play Services apps.

Authelia is a self-hosted authentication and authorization server that adds single sign-on and two-factor auth in front of a reverse proxy like Traefik or Nginx.

Authentik is a flexible identity provider supporting OAuth2/OIDC, SAML, LDAP, and proxy-based SSO, officially deployed via a single downloadable Docker Compose file.

Configure unattended-upgrades so security patches install automatically without manual intervention -- reduces the window a known vulnerability stays unpatched on a server nobody logs into daily.

Baserow is an open-source no-code database platform positioned as an Airtable alternative, with an official all-in-one Docker Compose deployment.

A simple, organized wiki platform that structures content as Books, Chapters, and Pages, aimed at teams documenting processes and knowledge.

Cacti is a mature RRDtool-based network graphing solution that polls devices over SNMP and renders historical performance graphs through a PHP/MySQL web front end.

A free, open-source web server that issues and renews HTTPS certificates automatically with zero configuration -- the simplest way to serve a static site or reverse-proxy an app with real TLS.

A web interface for browsing, reading, and downloading books from an existing Calibre library, with support for OPDS and e-reader sync.

A free, open-source, friendly home-server dashboard that sits on top of an existing Linux install (often a Raspberry Pi) -- app store, file manager, and Docker container management in one simple UI.

Checkmk is an IT infrastructure monitoring suite that auto-discovers services on hosts and ships as a self-contained OMD site image, officially distributed as a Docker container per edition.

Cockpit is a lightweight, browser-based admin console for managing a single Linux server — services, storage, networking, logs, and terminal access — using your normal system login.

A distributed SQL database that speaks the PostgreSQL wire protocol — built from the ground up for automatic sharding, replication, and surviving node failures without manual failover work.

A self-hosted job scheduler with a web dashboard, event history, alerting, and multi-server clustering — a modern, user-friendly alternative to a pile of cron jobs.

CrowdSec is a collaborative, behavior-based intrusion detection engine that parses logs for attack patterns and shares anonymized threat signals across its community, then relies on separate 'bouncer' components to actually block traffic.

Directus is a headless CMS and data platform that wraps a REST/GraphQL API and an admin app around your own SQL database, deployed via an official Docker Compose example.

Discourse is a modern forum and community platform; its official install method is a single bootstrap script that sets up Docker and an all-in-one container for you.

Domoticz is a lightweight home automation system for monitoring and controlling lights, switches and a wide range of sensors, officially distributed as a Docker image with a documented Compose setup.

Duplicati is free backup software that encrypts and compresses your data before sending it to local storage, network shares, or a wide range of cloud storage providers, with block-based incremental backups.

ERPNext is a full open-source ERP built on the Frappe framework, covering accounting, manufacturing, CRM and more; the officially supported way to run it in production is via the frappe_docker Docker Compose setup.

ESPHome lets you create and flash custom firmware for ESP8266/ESP32 and similar microcontrollers using simple YAML configuration files, usable either as a Home Assistant add-on or standalone via Docker.

A distributed search and analytics engine — the backbone of full-text search features and, paired with Kibana and Logstash/Beats, one of the most common self-hosted log-aggregation stacks (the 'ELK stack').