Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/RatioZealousideal555 on 2025-06-01 07:12:16+00:00.

I currently have 112 browser tabs open on my phone. Most of those are about ongoing online research projects, like looking up summer camps for my kids or buying a new laptop.

What’s a good self-hosted workflow to avoid this kind of clutter?

Should I just create tab groups for each project and leave them in the browser? Is there an easy way to store a group of bookmarks as a project in e.g. Linkwarden or Karakeet (which I’ve never used yet but seem interesting) and open them in the browser again when I have time to continue my project?

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Typical_Chance_1552 on 2025-05-31 23:11:44+00:00.

i want to setup a firewall at home and i want to know what firewall OS do you guys use and why i know there is pfsense and opnsense witch one of them is better and are there any other alternatives

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/human_garbage_UwU on 2025-05-31 14:46:41+00:00.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to bring attention to a project called DUO — it’s a fork of Sunshine that adds multiseat gaming features. Honestly, the concept is super cool, and I was really excited to use it and potentially contribute.

But after looking into it, I realized the developer is putting key features behind a paywall (via Patreon) and has only released partial source code, saying “the open source parts” are available — while keeping the rest closed.

Since Sunshine is licensed under the GPLv3, this is very likely a license violation. The GPL requires that if you modify or build on a GPL-licensed project and distribute it (even behind a paywall), you must also release all of the modified code under the same GPL license.

I’ve opened an issue on the DUO GitHub repo explaining this in detail and citing sources from the Free Software Foundation and the license itself: 👉 Here’s the GitHub issue I filed

I’m not trying to attack the dev here — I know maintaining projects is hard work, and DUO clearly took effort. But I also don’t think it’s right to build on open source work and then close off large parts of the result. That’s not how open source works, and it goes against the license that allowed this kind of innovation in the first place.

If anyone else is concerned or can offer insight (especially if you’ve dealt with GPL enforcement before), feel free to chime in on the issue or raise visibility. Hopefully with enough attention the developer will bring the project into compliance.

Thanks!

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/RipRainTime on 2025-05-31 14:38:47+00:00.

I want to test my connection (mobile, friends broadband etc.) to my server?

Edit: I use speedtest tracker to test speed on the server but I'm looking to test speed from clients to the server...

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/jafo on 2025-05-31 13:32:10+00:00.

I had a shower idea a couple weeks ago about a lighter-weight certificate signing service for homelabs and dev environments where full LetsEncrypt certificates might be too much of a hassle. Our dev and staging environments at work use self-signed CA for 100+ VMs, most of which respin on a nightly basis. We normally would use some tooling to sign, encrypt, and deliver via Ansible certs to our hosts, but we spend more time than I'd like managing those.

LessEncrypt is a simple client and server that uses reverse DNS lookups to identify the certificate CN and SANs, and then deliver back to the host a signed cert. It uses ports in the <1024 range to lend some air of authority to the request.

https://github.com/linsomniac/lessencrypt

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/DutchBytes on 2025-05-31 12:16:31+00:00.

Hi self-hosters,

I've been building an application that is designed to be an all-in-one solution for monitoring a website and can be self-hosted using Docker. It monitors:

• ✅ Uptime
• 🌐 DNS records
• 🔒 Certificates
• 🛡️ Newly published CVE's
• 🔗 Broken Links
• 📈 Google Lighthouse

And comes packed with a powerful and cutomizable notification system.

I've just reached 100 Github stars which feels like a good milestone and have written a article how I got here. I've had good feedback from other members of r/selfhosted and wanted to share this here too.

For those who want to go straight away to the repository, click here.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/514sid on 2025-05-31 09:30:33+00:00.

Last month, I shared a post about 9 free self-hosted digital signage software options, and I really appreciated the interest and feedback.

What I didn’t mention at the time is that I actually started working on my own project last year. I was planning to wait until a beta release to share more, but I’ve decided to develop in public, with full transparency, and invite the community in earlier.

What is Screenlite?

Screenlite is a self-hosted, open-source digital signage solution composed of two main parts:

• CMS: a modern content management system built with a contemporary tech stack for ease of use and deployment:
  • Docker for simple, portable deployment
  • Node.js backend powering the core logic
  • WebSockets enabling real-time updates and control
  • React SPA frontend for a smooth, responsive user experience
• Players: currently, I’m developing JavaScript-based players for both web and desktop platforms to display content managed by the CMS.

I’m not just building another competitor. My goal is to support the entire self-hosted digital signage ecosystem.

I’m really happy to see projects like Garlic-Hub actively developed. Rather than competing, I’m focusing on building adapters for player apps that can support multiple CMS platforms. This approach aims for interoperability and flexibility, so users can pick and choose the tools that fit their needs best.

How you can help / What I'd love to hear:

• What features matter most to you in a digital signage CMS?
• Would you use or test something like Screenlite?

I’d be really happy if you could star the repo to show your support:

https://github.com/screenlite/screenlite

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/BazimQQ on 2025-05-31 05:25:46+00:00.

That thing is hella fast!

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/ItGonBeK on 2025-05-31 05:13:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/madloggan on 2025-05-30 22:28:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/highspeed_usaf on 2025-05-30 21:04:05+00:00.

Just received the following email from Storj. This doesn’t apply to me because my usage is a little higher than the minimum. But I was wondering when I first signed up if they would really charge for such small data storage accounts e.g. pennies per month.

—-

What’s changing?

Starting July 1, 2025, Storj will introduce a $5 minimum monthly usage fee for all accounts. This helps cover the cost of payment processing and basic operations so we can continue offering fast, secure, and reliable storage—even for small accounts.

What does this mean for you?

If your monthly usage (storage, bandwidth, and segments) exceeds $5, nothing changes.

If your monthly usage totals less than $5, your account will be billed the $5 minimum monthly usage fee.

Don’t want to continue?

If you prefer not to be charged, you can close your account before June 30, 2025 to avoid the fee.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Scofarry on 2025-05-30 23:56:44+00:00.

For those who have replaced music streaming services with a self-hosted solution like Navidrome, for example.

How do you deal with the music recommendation feature that streaming services offer to help you discover new music?

Is there an application where we can add artists we like and receive notifications of new songs and then download them to our server?

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/ImaginaryRaccoon2106 on 2025-05-30 17:01:10+00:00.

Hey all, I wanna hear about some niche services that you’ve found extremely useful, but has little to no recognition. I love exploring new services even if I don’t use them

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/ZeroThaHero on 2025-05-30 19:21:27+00:00.

I recently got the bug for having a Homelab set up and as things are growing I'm finding it a pain to remember where things are installed and what their IP/Ports are.

I have a Synology 420+ running Home Assistant in Docker, but it's mainly used as media storage. I also have a couple of mini PC's running a Proxmox cluster (n100 & n150 cpu's) with a fair number of containers and VM's (as well as another Docker instance).

HA will eventually be moved over to a VM in the cluster but that will be once I organise everything else :)

How do I keep track of it all?

Currently I just use a spreadsheet with container names, IP addresses and ports, but surely there's something "nicer"?

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/yoracale on 2025-05-30 15:07:45+00:00.

Hello folks! Yesterday, DeepSeek did a huge update to their R1 model, bringing its performance on par with OpenAI's o3, o4-mini-high and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro. They called the model 'DeepSeek-R1-0528' (which was when the model finished training) aka R1 version 2.

Back in January you may remember my post about running the actual 720GB sized R1 (non-distilled) model with just an RTX 4090 (24GB VRAM) and now we're doing the same for this even better model and better tech.

Note: if you do not have a GPU, no worries, DeepSeek also released a smaller distilled version of R1-0528 by fine-tuning Qwen3-8B. The small 8B model performs on par with Qwen3-235B so you can try running it instead That model just needs 20GB RAM to run effectively. You can get 8 tokens/s on 48GB RAM (no GPU) with the Qwen3-8B R1 distilled model.

At Unsloth, we studied R1-0528's architecture, then selectively quantized layers (like MOE layers) to 1.58-bit, 2-bit etc. which vastly outperforms basic versions with minimal compute. Our open-source GitHub repo: https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth

1. We shrank R1, the 671B parameter model from 715GB to just 185GB (a 75% size reduction) whilst maintaining as much accuracy as possible.
2. You can use them in your favorite inference engines like llama.cpp.
3. Minimum requirements: Because of offloading, you can run the full 671B model with 20GB of RAM (but it will be very slow) - and 190GB of diskspace (to download the model weights). We would recommend having at least 64GB RAM for the big one!
4. Optimal requirements: sum of your VRAM+RAM= 120GB+ (this will be decent enough)
5. No, you do not need hundreds of RAM+VRAM but if you have it, you can get 140 tokens per second for throughput & 14 tokens/s for single user inference with 1xH100

If you find the large one is too slow on your device, then would recommend you to try the smaller Qwen3-8B one: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-GGUF

The big R1 GGUFs: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-0528-GGUF

We also made a complete step-by-step guide to run your own R1 locally: https://docs.unsloth.ai/basics/deepseek-r1-0528

Thanks so much once again for reading! I'll be replying to every person btw so feel free to ask any questions!

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/GeoSabreX on 2025-05-30 10:45:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Electronic_Fart666 on 2025-05-30 10:53:40+00:00.

Hi there,

as promised, HortusFox v5.0 was just published.

Here is the changelog:

• New language: Brazilien portuguese (#379)
• Allow removal of task items (#385)
• Add region on duplicate localization names (#387)
• Fixed breaking of weather page and dashboard upon newly activated OWM keys (#390)
• Variable to auto-update composer dependencies on docker app container start (#391)
• More selectable values for light level attribute (#388)
• API endpoints for backups and imports (#392)
• Allow users to select a gallery photo as main photo (#382)
• Toggable Add-Plant widget (#389)
• Improved localization contribution guide (#380)

Link to release: https://github.com/danielbrendel/hortusfox-web/releases/tag/v5.0

HortusFox homepage: https://www.hortusfox.com/

Thanks to all who are flying with HortusFox - your self-hosted management, tracking and journaling system for all your leafy indoor and outdoor plants!

HortusFox is a free and open-sourced self-hosted plant manager system that you can use to manage, keep track and journal your home plants. It is designed in a collaborative way, so you can manage your home plants with your partner, friends, family & more! By shipping the software as a self-hosted product, you are always master of your own personal data and thus are in full control over them.

Kind Regards

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Mag37 on 2025-05-30 08:17:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/FormProfessional2616 on 2025-05-29 22:49:43+00:00.

In these lists https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/bsp01i/welcome_to_rselfhosted_please_read_this_first/ No one bothered to add or does it have any bugs or some weird policy? https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Common_Drop7721 on 2025-05-30 04:34:04+00:00.

Hey, it's been a while and I took the time to improve this thing pretty much a lot. For those who don't know: Spotizerr is a music downloader that allows browsing through Spotify's catalog and downloading directly from it (yes, directly from Spotify, no youtube converting crap like other downloaders). There also is the fallback option: if enabled, it first tries to download from Deezer for lossless quality and if that fails, then seamlessly switches to Spotify.

This used to be pretty much it, until now: because now there is a new feature: Watching.

When checking out an artist or a playlist, you can now add it to the instance's watchlist. All playlists in the watchlist will have their new tracks automatically downloaded and all artists in the watchlist will have their albums automatically downloaded. For artist's albums, there is an option with which you can configure which specific type of releases you want to download from your artists (available options are: albums, singles, compilations and featured_in).

There now is a global download history, for those times you leave the tool downloading over night and want to check on potentially failed downloads no longer available in the UI.

Lots of more stuff, check out the full change-log here: https://github.com/Xoconoch/spotizerr/releases/tag/2.0.0

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/altendorfme_ on 2025-05-30 03:47:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/AnomalyNexus on 2025-05-29 11:21:33+00:00.

Given recent concerns around it I'm wondering what real world experiences with alternatives people are having.

Quick google says options include:

• Garage
• SeaweedFS
• Apache Ozone

...and ceph if you're going the FS route.

Anything positive/negative to report? How are you deploying it? Multi node? Single?

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/sid3ff3ct on 2025-05-29 14:05:34+00:00.

Looking for something to track things like domain expriations, VPS's and their prices and expirations, etc etc. I've looked at snipe-it but its just way to detailed for my pretty basic needs. I have a spreadsheet that i have, but hey why not try to find a cool project. What are you all using?

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/romanleopard on 2025-05-28 17:41:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/btc_maxi100 on 2025-05-29 19:32:23+00:00.

I'm actively using HashiCorp vault to store root passwords, SSL certificates for Ansible jobs.

Learned today that there is a fork of Vault - OpenBao that is more FOSS friendly.

Do people use it ? What can you say about it ?

I'm happy with Vault, but looking at where MinIO went the other day, concerned about the future of Hashicorp products for self-hosted users.