CoreDNS VS awesome-selfhosted

Compare CoreDNS vs awesome-selfhosted and see what are their differences.

CoreDNS

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins (by coredns)

awesome-selfhosted

A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers (by awesome-selfhosted)
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CoreDNS awesome-selfhosted
41 763
11,697 173,386
1.8% 4.1%
9.3 9.1
8 days ago 7 days ago
Go Makefile
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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CoreDNS

Posts with mentions or reviews of CoreDNS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-08.

awesome-selfhosted

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-selfhosted. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-08.
  • Home Lab Guide
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2024
    First: try running just about anything from https://awesome-selfhosted.net . Pick something useful to you. I chose Nextcloud and Jellyfin when I started in 2020.

    Shameless self-promotion: https://selfhostbook.com . My book covers justification for self-hosting and how to do it with Ubuntu, Docker, and Traefik.

    I wrote it for folks with some light sysadmin/programming skills. It covers one method and it's a good general starting starting point for self-hosting.

    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2024
    There are a ton of resources about HW aspects of home labs for beginners but not so much for what to run on them and why. There are lists like https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted but they are confusing for absolute beginners like me. Are there any good SE project guides you know?
  • Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2024
    This[1] seems like a well maintained repo.

    And thank you for the pointers, we'll try to get ourselves added here :)

    [1]: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

  • I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
    I've always felt like FOSS as a philosophy has been tangled up in trying to participate effectively in capitalism, when that was never really the point, nor really very possible unless you're lucky, nor really worth it. The origin of FOSS as I understand it from reading books like "Hackers" is from people that were mad that access was being restricted to systems and code from people that really wanted to use these systems and code, and hack them, and learn from them. I recall that one of the things Stallman likes to brag about from that time is not related to FOSS at all, but instead successfully decrypting a bunch of passwords, emailing the decrypted passwords to people, and recommending they instead set the password to an empty string instead. It was about keeping access to the system Free as in Beer.

    I suppose some have argued that FOSS represents a Public Commons in the way that fields and wells and physical markets used to, but none of those things survived capitalism, so I don't see why a technological commons should be expected to either.

    For me I've been thinking lately that perhaps those interested in FOSS should instead consider how we can use FOSS to detach ourselves from needing to participate in global capitalism at all. Is there FOSS technology we can use to liberate people from things they need to spend money on right now? An example could be the Global Village Construction Set: https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/ a set of open source designs for things like hydraulic motors or microcombines or steam engines that you can build on your own, usually not for cheap, but for far, far cheaper than you could buy from John Deere. Here's another cool project, some guy has just been building things like solar panels and basic circuit boards on his property from very base components for years: https://simplifier.neocities.org/

    Some other FOSS liberation examples:

    Combining a tool like Jellyfin with Sonarr, Radarr, and etc, can liberate people from their 5 different media subscriptions. Or at least they can still buy DVDs and put them on Jellyfin to have the convenience of streaming with the media library of their own choosing.

    Deploying Matrix or another FOSS communication tool can let organizations have enterprise-level communication software without paying HUGE seat-based license fees to corporations like Slack.

    In fact there's many ways to liberate yourself from paid SaaS in this list: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted at my co-op we self-host and deploy all our services for this reason, it saves us a TON of money.

    I don't have many other examples to mind because this is something I'm actively still researching. Friends in Venezuela though especially tell me how FOSS technology can liberate in ways I wouldn't expect here with my 64gb RAM machine with the latest processor, that I can easily replace components on on a whim. Such as how they can keep all their broken down machines pieced together from junkyards running pretty ok on various linux distros, and how they can sell creative work using free tools like gimp (no, really) or darktable. Like as not they'll just pirate software, though, but apparently FOSS often runs better on shitty hardware.

    Anyway my long term plan is to find or build more and more things that let people just not spend money on things anymore. That could be by making it easier to not have to throw things away anymore, or building tools to replace proprietary ones, or, idk, other ways I haven't thought of.

  • Stream to Chromecast with resolved, vlc and bash
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2024
    Dashboard in what sense? Is this what you had in mind or no?

    https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#per...

  • Ask HN: How do I leave Dropbox
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Dec 2023
  • Calling all ADHD entrepreneurs. How'd you do it? How do you make good on your responsibilities?
    2 projects | /r/irlADHD | 7 Dec 2023
  • What else should I host?
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 6 Dec 2023
    Another weekly “what else should I host” post. The correct answer should always be “host apps that you need, don’t just look for things to host that you will never use. A good starting point is https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted “
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 6 Dec 2023
  • The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2023
    I agree, however, compensation in general is reaching a point where rational value calculations are fraying. I can't explain why an engineer, though well paid, is making .01% of the CEO's salary, nor can I explain why an engineer doing the same work but in the Philippines is making 40% of the salary of the one in the USA.

    I was very inspired by "Walkaway" by Cory Doctorow. It involves a world where people detach themselves from "Default" (global capitalist society) by living in abandoned towns, building the tooling they need to re-establish a modern quality of life. He pulled a great deal on the open source movement in his speculations of how this might look. What I didn't realize at the time is it is essentially an anarchist proposition of community self-reliance. In the novel, there's no point in seeking compensation for your work, because your basic needs are already met by a share-and-share-alike society, and therefore everything you do fulfills either a very clear personal or community need (building a tractor, a house, software to manage a farm, a public spa, or repair schedules), or, is purely for pleasure.

    My friend that's sticking it out in the USA is doing the "correct" path for an engineer: First gig in our hometown, transitioned to NYC, did a 4 year tour there saving a couple hundred K, house upstate, still working and saving for retirement but also farming ants and doing his other odd projects for his pleasure. In a recent conversation he mentioned frustration at the poor retirement opportunities for most of our generation. You gamble your life saving's on the stock market, or, do something that doesn't really benefit the world like flipping properties, if you can afford it. If your interest is self fulfillment, community fulfillment, and financial fulfillment as we grow older, that doesn't really exist, at least not in any combination that we've been able to figure out. He's thinking about some kind of ethical business venture, or maybe just a fun thing he can kick off that he can hire his non-engineering friends into like a cute little sandwich shop or something, but as he enters that world he's realizing all his competition is hyper-capitalized businesses or people that he can't possibly compete with if he doesn't do the same shit they're doing, such as filling their kitchens with undocumented immigrants. Basically, if he wants to do good and get paid for it, the opportunities just don't seem to be there.

    So therefore, long term what I want to strive for as I build out open source software is actions that "break us out of the box." I and my like minded friends don't really think capitalism is going to cut it in terms of actually rewarding with money our efforts to do good in the world; after all, an investment banker makes more than a teacher and firefighter combined, and does functionally nothing useful. Therefore I'm interested in building things that free people from a financial burden. Every little financial burden I can free people from is a success. I love when I read stories about people building out little GPT programs that can automatically negotiate parking bills or whatever. Or scan your email to automatically apply for rebates and coupons. Or, outside of actual coding, helping people find out that their library has a streaming app they can use for free, so they don't have to pay netflix anymore. Or helping people turn their lawns into gardens, to reduce their food bills.

    From a software standpoint, the "Awesome Selfhosted" project is very inspiring in this vein: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted Lots of tools that many people pay for that you can instead deploy on your own and use for free in a way you control.

    That's the kind of open source software I want to build. Trying to get paid to build FOSS is a distraction, instead I want to build things that will help people not have to pay for other stuff. I make plenty of money in my day job, I'm good on that front. Pipe dream, we do enough of it, and the question of "getting paid" becomes moot.

What are some alternatives?

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focalboard - Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.

stash - An organizer for your porn, written in Go. Documentation: https://docs.stashapp.cc

porn-vault - 💋 Manage your ever-growing porn collection. Using Vue & GraphQL

matrix-docker-ansible-deploy - 🐳 Matrix (An open network for secure, decentralized communication) server setup using Ansible and Docker

languagetool - Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages

CasaOS - CasaOS - A simple, easy-to-use, elegant open-source Personal Cloud system.

Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements

blocky - Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features