Archives: Applications

  • Pi-hole

    Pi-hole

    Pi-hole blocks ads and trackers for every device on your network at the DNS level, not just one browser. Here’s…

  • Home Assistant

    Home Assistant

    Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform built for local control, not the cloud. Here’s how its two officially…

  • Immich

    Immich

    Immich is a self-hosted Google Photos alternative with real AI face and object recognition and automatic mobile backup. Here’s the…

  • Nextcloud

    Nextcloud

    What Nextcloud actually does, the two real Docker install paths (plain image vs. AIO), and when it beats or loses…

  • Bitwarden

    Bitwarden

    Bitwarden’s official self-hosted release is the vendor’s own Docker-based server, shipped as a heavier Standard deployment or a new single-container…

  • Vaultwarden

    Vaultwarden

    Vaultwarden is a lightweight, unofficial Bitwarden-compatible server written in Rust: one Docker container instead of the official multi-service stack. Here’s…

  • n8n

    n8n

    n8n is a self-hostable workflow automation platform, the fair-code alternative to Zapier and Make. Here’s what it’s actually good for…

  • Kodi

    Kodi

    Kodi is free, open-source media center software you install on the device you watch on, not a server. Here’s how…

  • Emby

    Emby

    Emby is a personal media server with polished native apps for Apple TV and PlayStation, but hardware transcoding, DVR, and…

  • Plex

    Plex

    Plex is the media server with the most polished apps in self-hosting, and a free tier that covers local streaming.…