Self-Hosting & Homelab

The canonical catalogue of self-hostable software, browsable by category with licence and language details.

Community-written starting points, hardware advice and recurring recommendations from the main subreddit.

Fully free and open-source media server with no accounts, tracking or paid tiers.

Official documentation hub for the *arr application family and how they fit together.

Self-hosted files, calendar, contacts and collaboration, the broadest replacement for Google Workspace.

Local-first home automation that unifies thousands of devices without depending on vendor clouds.

Network-wide ad and tracker blocking via DNS, protecting devices that cannot run an extension.

Self-hosted Google Photos replacement with mobile backup, face recognition and search that genuinely works.

Web UI for managing Docker containers, stacks and volumes without living in the terminal.

NAS OS built around mixed-size drives and easy app installation, the friendliest on-ramp to a home server.

Free virtualisation and container platform that most homelabs end up running as their base OS.

WireGuard mesh VPN that makes your home services reachable from anywhere without opening a single port.

Self-hosted uptime monitoring with a good-looking dashboard and notifications to anywhere.

Fast, highly customisable dashboard that ties all your services and their live status onto one page.

Turns scanned documents into a searchable, OCR'd archive and finally kills the filing cabinet.

ZFS-based NAS operating system with snapshots and replication, built for keeping data intact.

Point-and-click reverse proxy with automatic Let's Encrypt certificates for all your services.

Lightweight self-hosted server compatible with Bitwarden clients, popular for running your own vault.

Weekly newsletter and app directory that has become the community's main source for what is new and worth running.

Consistently maintained Docker images with a shared configuration approach, the base layer of most homelabs.

Curated list of Docker tooling, dashboards and resources worth knowing.

Companion to awesome-selfhosted covering monitoring, backups, automation and virtualization, with automated dead-link checks.

Tools, OS images, project ideas and hardware resources for Raspberry Pi builds.

Opinionated, well-reasoned guide to building a durable home media and storage server.

Community build guides matching budgets to parts lists for NAS and virtualisation servers.

Server distribution that installs and manages self-hosted apps for you, ideal for a first self-hosting attempt.