Guide

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 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.

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.

Hugo is one of the fastest static site generators available — write content in Markdown, generate a complete site in milliseconds, and serve the resulting plain HTML files with Nginx for maximum speed and minimal attack surface.

A self-hosted, privacy-respecting web analytics platform — a fully-featured alternative to Google Analytics where you own 100% of the visitor data instead of sending it to a third party.

The open-source wiki software that powers Wikipedia itself — the standard choice for a large, heavily-cross-referenced, community-editable knowledge base.

Strapi is an open-source, JavaScript-based headless CMS; while Strapi doesn't ship an official image, its documentation provides a maintained production Dockerfile and Compose file for containerized deployment.

WordPress is the world's most widely used self-hosted CMS, installed via its long-standing 'Famous Five-Minute Install': download the package, point it at a database, and finish setup through a browser wizard.

The world's most widely-used CMS, self-hosted via the official Docker images alongside a MySQL database -- the same software powering a large share of the web, running on your own server.