A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers - GitHub - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and ...
Lemmy search isn’t great, or I’m too new, and can’t tell if this has been posted here before.
I miss the days when awesome lists were curated to actually have awesome stuff instead of being a list of 250+ self hostable apps.
There is no way these are all awesome. Call it the giant list of self hosted apps or something that actually makes sense.
awesome-selhosted maintainer here. This critique comes up often (and I sometimes agree...) but it's hard to properly "fix":
Any rule that enforces some kind of "quality" guideline has to be explicitly written to the contribution guidelines to not waste submitters' (and maintainers) time.
As you can see there are already minimal rules in place (software has to be actively maintained, properly documented, first release must be older than 4 months, must of course be fully Free and Open-source...). Anything more is very hard to word objectively or is plain unfair - in the last 7 years (!) maintaining the list I've spent countless hours thinking about it.
For example, rejecting new projects because an existing/already listed one effectively does the same thing would give an unfair advantage to older projects, effectively "locking out" newer ones. Moreover, you will rarely find two projects that have the exact same feature set, workflow, release frequency... and every user has different needs and requirements, so yeah, users of the list are expected to do some research to find the best solution to their particular needs.
This is of course, less true for some categories (why are there so many pastebins??). But again, it's hard to find clear and objective criteria to determine what deserves to be listed and what does not.
If we started rejecting projects because "I don't have a need for it" or "I already use a somewhat equivalent solution and am not going to switch", that would discard 90% of entries in the list (and not necessarily the worst ones). I do check that projects being added are in a "production-ready" state and ask more questions during reviews if needed. But it's hard to be more selective than we already are, without falling in subjective "I like/I don't like" reasoning (let's ban all Nodejs-based projects, npm is horrible and a security liability. Let's also ban all projects that are so convoluted and impossible to build and install properly that Docker is the only installation option. Follow my thoughts?)
Also, Free Software has always been very fragmented, which is both a strength and a weakness. The list simply reflects that.
Another idea I contemplated is linking each project to a "review" thread for the software in question. But I will not host or moderate such a forum/review board, and it will be heavily brigaded by PR departments looking to promote their companies software.
A HTML version is coming out soon (based on the same data) that will hopefully make the list easier to browse.
I am open to other suggestions, keeping in mind the points above...
250+ self hostable apps
1268 exactly.
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I would imagine the source for most projects is hosted on GitHub, or similar platforms? Perhaps you could consider forks, stars, and followers as "votes" and sort each sub category based on the votes. I would imagine that would be scriptable - the script could be included in the awesome list repo, and run periodically. It would be kind of interesting to tag "releases" and see how the sort order changes over time. If you wanted to get fancy, the sorting could probably happen as part of a CI task.
If workable, the obvious benefit is you don't have to exclude anything for subjective reasons, but it's easier for readers of the list to quickly find the "most used" options.
Just an idea off the top of my head. You may have already thought about it, and/or it may be full of holes.
It’s covers a pretty wide range of topics hence the bigger number…
Either way, would you refuse a library because it had too many books or would you use a searching/organizational system to locate what you want
I would expect an „awesome-books“ list to not include every book ever written.
Do you think it’s fair to say that one size does not fit all, so a giant list of self hosted options for people to choose from, is itself awesome?
The benefit of self hosting boils down to being able to make your own choices. Having a full list of options to choose from and make your own decision fits this community better (for better or worse) than someone else curating that thing for you.
And a lot of the best options per category are at the bottom of the list.
best
As I replied above, "best" is subjective.
But yes, alphabetical ordering is not always the most adapted.
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I'd rather a bulk list of everything that can be set up on a home lab, personally. I'll decide what is and isn't useful to me.
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A warning to those that haven’t looked at this list…. It’s a time vacuum. A “few minutes” of browsing it will translate to hours lost and family members on the verge of reporting you as missing.
I was already sold, you don't need to keep pitching more reasons to check it out.
He's not kidding. I've lost everything!
Found it. Please enjoy!
Haha! I lost at least an hour this morning. And plan on losing more later…
I don't know what you're talking about cough I certainly haven't installed a handful of apps from these lists since I discovered them.
Haha! I lost at least an hour this morning. And plan on losing more later…
Edit: weird that this posted twice 🤷♂️
This is still a good one to repost because it can otherwise get buried in the mix. I have this site bookmarked.
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Missing at least these:
- Load balancers/Reverse peoxies - Caddy, Traefik.
- Missing DNS server "blocky" which I find way better than Pi-Hole.
Nice list, but could have more. :)
It's github. Submit a PR
Load balancers/Reverse peoxies - Caddy, Traefik.
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#web-servers -> https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin#web
Missing DNS server “blocky” which I find way better than Pi-Hole.
Listed at https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#dns
I wish this had some top picks or „GOAT“ list like the piracy megathread.
why not make a post asking for everyone’s picks!
Can we link to this in the selfhosted ‘about’ section (sidebar)?