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Self-Hosted App Guides

Detailed guides for 50 popular self-hosted applications — what they do, why self-host them, and how to deploy with Dokploy.

Automation

n8n is a powerful open-source workflow automation tool with 174,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting n8n on your own VPS gives you full control over your automation pipelines.

Open WebUI is an extensible, self-hosted AI interface with 123,000+ GitHub stars. Run your own ChatGPT-style interface connected to Ollama, OpenAI, or any LLM provider.

Productivity

Excalidraw is an open-source virtual whiteboard with 116,000+ GitHub stars. Self-host your own collaborative diagramming tool with a hand-drawn aesthetic on your VPS.

Development

Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative with 97,000+ GitHub stars. Self-host a full Postgres-based backend with auth, storage, and real-time APIs on your own VPS.

Photos

Immich is a high-performance self-hosted photo and video backup solution with 92,000+ GitHub stars. Replace Google Photos with your own private media server on a VPS.

Home Assistant is a privacy-focused home automation platform with 84,000+ GitHub stars. Control your smart home from your own VPS or local server without cloud dependencies.

Monitoring

Uptime Kuma is an easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring tool with 82,000+ GitHub stars. Monitor your websites, APIs, and services with alerts — all from your own VPS.

File Sharing

Syncthing is a peer-to-peer file synchronization tool with 79,000+ GitHub stars. Keep your files in sync across devices without cloud storage — all running on your own VPS.

Monitoring

Netdata is a real-time infrastructure monitoring platform with 77,000+ GitHub stars. Monitor servers, containers, and applications with per-second granularity on your own VPS.

Development

code-server is VS Code running in the browser with 76,000+ GitHub stars. Self-host your development environment and code from any device through your own VPS.

File Sharing

LocalSend is a cross-platform file sharing tool with 74,000+ GitHub stars. Share files and text between devices on your local network without internet — AirDrop for everyone.

Document Management

Stirling PDF is a self-hosted PDF manipulation tool with 74,000+ GitHub stars. Merge, split, convert, and edit PDF files through a web interface on your own VPS.

Monitoring

Grafana is a leading observability platform with 72,000+ GitHub stars. Build real-time dashboards and visualize metrics from any data source on your own VPS.

Apache Superset is an open-source data exploration and visualization platform with 70,000+ GitHub stars. Build interactive dashboards and run SQL queries on your own VPS.

Networking

Caddy is a powerful, extensible web server with 69,000+ GitHub stars and automatic HTTPS. Deploy a modern reverse proxy on your own VPS with zero certificate management.

Productivity

AppFlowy is an open-source AI-powered workspace with 68,000+ GitHub stars. Self-host a Notion alternative for wikis, documents, and project management on your VPS.

Automation

Ansible is the most popular open-source IT automation tool with 67,000+ GitHub stars. Automate server configuration, application deployment, and orchestration from your own VPS.

Documentation

Docusaurus is Meta's open-source documentation framework with 63,000+ GitHub stars. Build beautiful, versioned docs sites and deploy them on your own VPS.

Productivity

AFFiNE is an open-source workspace with 62,000+ GitHub stars that combines docs, whiteboards, and databases. Self-host a Notion and Miro alternative on your VPS.

Monitoring

Prometheus is the leading open-source monitoring system with 62,000+ GitHub stars. Collect metrics, run queries with PromQL, and set up alerting on your own VPS.

Database

NocoDB is an open-source no-code database platform with 61,000+ GitHub stars. Turn any SQL database into a smart spreadsheet interface on your own VPS.

Networking

Traefik is a leading cloud-native reverse proxy with 61,000+ GitHub stars. Auto-discover services, route traffic, and manage SSL certificates on your own VPS.

Storage

MinIO is an S3-compatible object storage system with 60,000+ GitHub stars. Run your own cloud storage backend on a VPS with enterprise-grade performance.

Productivity

Memos is an open-source note-taking service with 56,000+ GitHub stars. Capture quick thoughts and notes in a Twitter-like timeline on your own VPS.

Development

PocketBase is an open-source real-time backend with 56,000+ GitHub stars. Get a database, auth, file storage, and admin UI in a single executable on your VPS.

Meilisearch is a lightning-fast open-source search API with 55,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Meilisearch on your own VPS gives you instant, typo-tolerant search without third-party dependencies.

Pi-hole is a network-wide ad blocker with 55,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Pi-hole on your own VPS gives you DNS-level ad blocking for every device on your network.

Backup

Rclone is a versatile cloud storage sync tool with 55,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Rclone on your own VPS gives you unified management of 70+ cloud storage providers.

Security

Vaultwarden is a lightweight Bitwarden-compatible password manager with 54,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Vaultwarden on your own VPS gives you full control over your credentials.

Development

Appwrite is an open-source backend-as-a-service platform with 54,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Appwrite on your own VPS gives you a complete backend for web and mobile apps.

Development

Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service with 53,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Gitea on your own VPS gives you a complete code hosting platform under your control.

Notes

Joplin is an open-source note-taking and to-do application with 53,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Joplin Server on your own VPS gives you full control over your notes and sync data.

Ghost is a professional publishing and newsletter platform with 51,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Ghost on your own VPS gives you full control over your blog and membership business.

Deployment

Coolify is an open-source deployment and management platform with 50,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Coolify on your own VPS gives you a Heroku-like experience without vendor lock-in.

Social

Mastodon is a decentralized social media platform with 49,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Mastodon on your own VPS gives you a federated social network under your control.

Files

AList is a file list application supporting multiple storage backends with 49,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting AList on your own VPS gives you unified access to all your cloud storage.

Business

Odoo is a comprehensive open-source business application suite with 48,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Odoo on your own VPS gives you full ERP, CRM, and e-commerce under one platform.

Automation

Huginn is an agent-based automation system with 48,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Huginn on your own VPS gives you programmable agents that monitor, scrape, and automate tasks online.

Jellyfin is a free, open-source media server with 48,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Jellyfin on your own VPS gives you full control over your movies, TV shows, music, and live TV.

Development

Gogs is a painless, lightweight self-hosted Git service with 47,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Gogs on your own VPS gives you a fast, simple Git server without the overhead of larger platforms.

Community

Discourse is a modern community discussion platform with 46,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Discourse on your own VPS gives you full control over your online community.

Analytics

Metabase is an open-source business intelligence and analytics platform with 45,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Metabase on your own VPS gives you fast, friendly data exploration without sharing data with third parties.

Database

ClickHouse is a high-performance column-oriented database with 45,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting ClickHouse on your own VPS gives you blazing-fast analytical queries over massive datasets.

Media

OpenCut is an open-source video editor for web, desktop, and mobile with 45,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting OpenCut on your own VPS gives you a powerful video editing platform without cloud subscriptions.

Project Management

Plane is a full-featured open-source project management tool with 45,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Plane on your own VPS gives you Jira-level project tracking without vendor lock-in.

Communication

Rocket.Chat is a fully customizable open-source communications platform with 44,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Rocket.Chat on your own VPS gives you complete control over your team messaging.

Design

Penpot is an open-source design and prototyping platform with 44,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Penpot on your own VPS gives your team a Figma alternative with full data ownership.

Monitoring

Sentry is an open-source error tracking and performance monitoring platform with 43,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting Sentry on your own VPS gives you developer-first observability without data leaving your infrastructure.

LocalAI is an open-source drop-in replacement for the OpenAI API with 42,000+ GitHub stars. Learn why self-hosting LocalAI on your own VPS gives you private, local AI inference without sending data to cloud providers.

File Sharing

copyparty is a portable file server with 42,000+ GitHub stars that turns almost any device into a file sharing platform. Learn why self-hosting copyparty on your own VPS gives you fast, feature-rich file management.

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