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Top 9 Shell Selfhosted Projects
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Dokku is the smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen. It's a self-hosted Heroku alternative that runs on a single server. Push code with git push — Dokku builds, deploys, and manages your apps.
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Kargo
Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.
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Raspberry-Pi-Guide
Raspberry Pi Guide. Learn all about the Raspberry Pi and other cool tools such as Tailscale, WireGuard, Home Assistant, Homebridge, ESPHome, and Watchdog timer.
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vps-harden
Idempotent VPS hardening for Ubuntu — SSH, firewall, fail2ban, kernel tuning, auditd, SOPS secrets, and optional AI agent workspace security. Dry-run first, lockout protection built in. (by ranjith-src)
Project mention: Show HN: VPS-Harden, an Idempotent Bash Script to Harden Ubuntu VPS – OpenClaw | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-16Zero dependencies — single Bash file, no Python, no Ansible, no agents. curl | bash to install, sudo vps-harden to run.
The lockout protection was the hardest part to get right. The script disables password auth and restricts SSH to a single user, so if the key deployment or AllowUsers config is wrong, you're locked out.
It validates everything before reloading sshd, and if validation fails, it removes the config and rolls back.
Your existing session stays alive throughout.
Install: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ranjith-src/vps-harden/mai... | bash
Repo: https://github.com/ranjith-src/vps-harden
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AppSignal
Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.
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vps-secure
🛡️ VPS-SECURE is the only script that turns a bare VPS into an operational fortress — honeypot, collaborative IPS, real-time dashboard, Telegram alerts — in 15 minutes and 1 command, with zero Linux expertise required. 🚀⚡
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forgejo-appliance
an opinionated blueprint for deploying Forgejo in an OrbStack VM with Ubuntu, PostgreSQL and the tsbridge reverse proxy
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Selfhosted projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dokku | 32,123 |
| 2 | Compose-Examples | 7,361 |
| 3 | cloudmacs | 587 |
| 4 | Raspberry-Pi-Guide | 301 |
| 5 | home-infrastructure | 38 |
| 6 | vps-harden | 37 |
| 7 | pragnastic | 9 |
| 8 | vps-secure | 5 |
| 9 | forgejo-appliance | 5 |
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