Self-Hosted IPsec VPN: Your Own Canadian Exit Node in One Command
hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn — IKEv2, L2TP, and Cisco IPsec on Ubuntu/Debian via Libreswan. ~28k stars, one-liner install, native iOS and Windows clients.
Read articleProxmox VE Helper-Scripts: One-Line LXC Installs for Your Homelab
community-scripts/ProxmoxVE — MIT bash installers for hundreds of homelab apps on Proxmox LXC/VM. Paste, prompt, done. tteck's legacy, ~28k stars.
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Self-Hosted Langfuse: See Why Your LLM App Lied — Traces, Evals, and Prompt Versions
Langfuse is MIT-licensed LLM engineering — observability, prompt management, datasets, and evals on Docker with ClickHouse. YC W23, ~29k stars. Not a chat UI.
Read articleSelf-Hosted Onyx: Team AI Search Over Slack, Drive, and Confluence — Not ChatGPT
Onyx (formerly Danswer) is MIT-licensed enterprise AI — 50+ connectors, agentic RAG, deep research, MCP, and any LLM on Docker Standard or Lite mode.
Read articleSelf-Hosted Homepage: Your Homelab Apps on One Screen, With Live Stats
Homepage (gethomepage) is a YAML-configured dashboard — 100+ service widgets, Docker label discovery, proxied API keys, port 3000. Launch pad, not RSS reader.
Read articleSelf-Hosted changedetection.io: Know When the Price Changed, Not Just When the Site Is Up
changedetection.io monitors web page content — restocks, price drops, defacement, JSON APIs — with CSS filters and alerts to Discord, Slack, or ntfy on Docker port 5000.
Read articleSelf-Hosted Dokku: git push heroku main, Except You Own the Server
Dokku is the original mini-Heroku — Git push deploys, buildpacks, nginx, and Postgres plugins on 1 GB RAM. CLI-first PaaS without the dashboard bloat.
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Self-Hosted CasaOS: Personal Cloud Without the Terminal PhD
CasaOS is a home-friendly Docker dashboard — one-click Immich, Jellyfin, Nextcloud, and 500+ apps on Ubuntu or Debian. Personal cloud, not developer PaaS.
Read articleSelf-Hosted Dokploy: Git Push Deploys Without the Vercel Bill
Dokploy is a lightweight self-hosted PaaS — Git deploys, databases, Docker Compose, Traefik TLS, and Swarm clustering on a Canadian VPS you control.
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