Most overrated and most underrated selfhosted software, in your opinion?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/selfhosted

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  • AdGuardHome

    Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server

  • AdGuardHome has standalone binaries that are fantastic if you don't like docker: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

  • filemanager

    📂 Web File Browser

  • filebrowser - web based file manager, direct access to files

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • headscale

    An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

  • FWIW Tailscale can be self hosted.

  • docker-wireguard-pia

    A Docker container for using Wireguard with PIA.

  • 2) Also underrated because it's the only docker image for a VPN provider that supports portforwarding & automatically updates the configured port in QBittorrent settings: https://github.com/thrnz/docker-wireguard-pia

  • wireguard-ui

    Wireguard web interface

  • 3) I tried a lot eventually ended up with this one: very simple and friendly but just enough features Wireguard interface for your VPN server: https://github.com/ngoduykhanh/wireguard-ui

  • openbooks

    Search and Download eBooks

  • glances

    Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

  • It's run it without docker. But, yes, it's available with docker too: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • wg-access-server

    An all-in-one WireGuard VPN solution with a web ui for connecting devices

  • I tried them all. I settled on wg-access-server.

  • wg-access-server

    An all-in-one WireGuard VPN solution with a web ui for connecting devices (by freifunkMUC)

  • My bad. Should have mentioned the updated fork of that image. This one: https://github.com/freifunkMUC/wg-access-server

  • smtp_to_telegram

    A small program that listens for SMTP and sends all incoming Email messages to Telegram

  • smtp_to_telegram - smtp server that forwards everything to you via telegram, great for notifications

  • Healthchecks

    Open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django

  • Healthchecks - monitoring, I prefer it over uptime Kuma, I can make sure my scripts are running for borg backups and updating my ddns and other things as well as making sure all my services are running.

  • pass-import

    A pass extension for importing data from most existing password managers

  • https://www.passwordstore.org/ and sync with anything you like (e.g. Synching). You can share passwords with multiple people and use it everywhere. I like it because it has the same functions (excluding web ui) with a much smaller code base.

  • 2FAuth

    A Web app to manage your Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) accounts and generate their security codes

  • Lately it's been 2FAuth. Self-hosted MFA. Get your crap out of Google/Microsoft/Twilio/Duo and just roll your own. Doesn't require port forwarding or anything, it just works.

  • Appwrite

    Build like a team of hundreds_

  • I'm biased as an Appwrite maintainer, but... Appwrite is pretty underrated!

  • Calibre Web

    :books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database

  • TeslaMate

    A self-hosted data logger for your Tesla 🚘

  • Don't get me wrong, I like some of the dashboards provided for my car (via TeslaMate), but I think some people might be going a bit overboard.

  • mpd

    Music Player Daemon

  • I use mpd from https://www.musicpd.org/. I run it on my linux router, which has head phone jack and connect to a pair of speakers, and can control either from my desktop or my phone.

  • languagetool

    Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages

  • was confused as well. He linked the dev page that's why. Go to the homepage where you'll understand what it actually does https://languagetool.org

  • gocryptfs

    Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

  • It might be wise to consider using encfs for data protection, it is considered to be insecure. A lot of users switched to gocryptfs which works pretty much the same but following modern encryption practices.

  • coredns-filter

    Sinkholing in CoreDNS

  • That's the plan. Going to be putting it here.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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