Self-Hosted Gogs: Git Hosting When You Want the Smallest Forge Possible
Gogs has hosted private Git since 2014 — pull requests, issues, and webhooks on 512 MB RAM. The original lightweight forge, before you needed CI built in.
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Self-Hosted SiYuan: Block-Based Notes When Memos Isn't Enough
SiYuan is a privacy-first PKM with block-level links, WYSIWYG Markdown, flashcards, and Docker hosting — your second brain on a Canadian VPS, not someone else's cloud.
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Self-Hosted Appwrite: Firebase-Style Backend on Your Own Server
Appwrite bundles auth, databases, storage, functions, and realtime APIs — self-host the full stack on Docker when user data should stay on Canadian infrastructure.
Read articleSelf-Hosted Gitea: Lightweight Git Hosting Without GitHub
Gitea gives you Git, pull requests, issues, Actions CI, and package registries on a small VPS — a painless self-hosted forge for teams who want their code in Canada.
Read articleSelf-Hosted ClickHouse: Analytics When Postgres Starts Sweating
ClickHouse is a columnar OLAP database for billions of rows — self-host event analytics, logs, and dashboards on fast NVMe instead of timing out in MySQL.
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Self-Hosted Unsloth: Fine-Tune Open Models on Your Own GPU
Unsloth speeds up QLoRA and LoRA training on NVIDIA GPUs — Studio UI, Docker image, and exports to GGUF. Keep fine-tuning data off Colab and on infrastructure you control.
Read articleSelf-Hosted Memos: Quick Notes Without the Notion Overhead
Memos is a Markdown-native timeline for fast capture — one small Docker container, SQLite by default, and your notes stay on your server instead of someone else's cloud.
Read articleSelf-Hosted Coolify: Heroku-Style Deploys on Your Own Server
Coolify is an open-source PaaS — Git deploys, 280+ one-click services, automatic HTTPS, and multi-server Docker management without Kubernetes.
Read articleSelf-Hosted Immich: Google Photos, Except You Own the Album
Immich backs up your phone, finds faces, and searches by scene — like Google Photos, but the library lives on your server. Here is what it takes to run it for real.
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