List of some self hosted services you can setup on your homelab

9 March 2024

Communication & Collaboration #

1. Matrix.org - A decentralized messaging platform.
2. Zulip - An open source group chat application.
3. Nextcloud - A cloud storage and collaboration suite.
4. ownCloud - A self-hosted file sync and share server.
5. Mattermost - An open-source team collaboration hub.
6. Freenode - Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network for open source projects.
7. GitLab - Web-based Git repository manager with CI/CD pipeline features.
8. GitPod - A code ide that spins up dev environments with one click.

Social Media & Forums #

1. Mastodon - A decentralized social network based on the GNU social/G+/Twitter microblogging platform software.
2. Friendica - An open-source distributed communication and social networking platform.
3. Flarum - A forum software that focuses on simplicity, speed, elegance, and usability.
4. Discourse - A modern, open, and versatile discussion platform.
5. phpBB - A popular open-source forum package.
6. Fluentd - A data collection tool for collecting events from various data sources to a variety of destinations.
7. Logstash - An open-source data processing pipeline that can collect data from diverse sources and channel it into a unified format.
8. Kibana - An open source data visualization and exploration tool built on top of Elasticsearch.

Developer Tools #

1. Docker - A platform for developing, shipping, and running applications.
2. Jenkins - An extensible continuous integration server.
3. GitLab CI/CD - Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.
4. Travis CI - A cloud-based continuous integration service for GitHub and Bitbucket projects.
5. JIRA - Project management software that includes scrum, sprint planning, backlog prioritization, release tracking features.
6. Redmine - A free project management web application.
7. Tuleap - An integrated project management tool combining the best practices in IT project management with modern and open-source tools.

Email & Calendaring #

1. Roundcube - A web-based mail client.
2. Horde Groupware Web Application Framework - A groupware suite.
3. Zimbra - An email, calendar, and collaboration system.
4. Sogo - A combination of a webserver component for iCalendar, vCard, and SMTP access and client libraries for various IMAP and CalDAV clients.
5. DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser - A privacy-oriented browser based on Firefox.

Data Management #

1. Elasticsearch - A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine.
2. Kibana - For visualizing Elasticsearch data in real time.
3. PostgreSQL - A powerful, open-source object-relational database system.
4. MongoDB - An open-source document-oriented database.
5. Redis - An in-memory key-value store used as a database, cache and message broker.
6. Memcached - A general-purpose distributed memory caching system.
7. Neo4j - A graph database that allows for flexible queries using Cypher query language.
8. InfluxDB - An open-source time series database.

Office & Productivity #

1. LibreOffice - An open-source office suite.
2. OnlyOffice - A platform that combines online text editors, document and project management, file storage in a single solution.
3. Apache OpenOffice - Another free and open-source office suite.
4. Zimbra Collaboration Suite - An email and calendar server with an optional desktop client.

Infrastructure & Monitoring #

1. Nagios - A monitoring system for systems, networks, and infrastructure.
2. Zabbix - An enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution.
3. Prometheus - A monitoring system and time series database.
4. InfluxDB - For storing and analyzing metrics.
5. Kubernetes - An open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer containers.
6. OpenVPN - A robust and highly configurable VPN solution.
7. NGINX - A high performance web server and reverse proxy server.
8. Traefik - A modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer.
9. HAProxy - A reliable, efficient, and flexible load balancing solution.

Multimedia & Entertainment #

1. Plex - A client-server media management and streaming platform.
2. Emby - An extensible media server and player with rich metadata capabilities.
3. Radarr - A companion application to Sonarr for downloading new episodes of TV shows.
4. Sonarr - An index based, TV show downloader that uses NZB files.
5. Jackett - An indexing engine that searches many different websites.
6. Deluge - A lightweight and feature-rich BitTorrent client.
7. Rutorrent - An easy-to-use bittorrent client with a lot of features.
8. Lidarr - An automated music indexer that can automatically download your favorite albums.

E-commerce #

1. Magento Open Source - A flexible e-commerce platform for businesses of all sizes.
2. PrestaShop - An open-source e-commerce solution.
3. OpenCart - A free, open-source shopping cart system.
4. WooCommerce - A WordPress plugin that turns your site into a fully-fledged online store.

Security #

1. fail2ban - A network security tool that analyzes log files for failed login attempts and then bans the IP addresses of those who succeed in multiple unsuccessful login attempts.
2. Cryptography - Tools and libraries for encryption and decryption.
3. OSSEC - A powerful open-source host-based intrusion detection system.
4. Pulse Secure Virtual Desktop - A secure access service edge (SASE) platform that enables organizations to deliver integrated, cloud-first application and network access security.
5. ClamAV - An open-source antivirus engine for detecting Trojans, viruses, malware, and other malicious threats.

Cloud & Storage #

1. OpenStack - A cloud operating system for delivering various cloud services.
2. Cloudflare - An internet performance and security company that provides a network of distributed servers to protect websites from cyber attacks.
3. Nextcloud - Already listed earlier, but worth mentioning again as it’s also a full-fledged cloud service.
4. OpenVPN - For creating secure remote access to your home lab.

Web Servers #

1. Apache HTTP Server - The world’s most widely used web server.
2. NGINX - A high performance HTTP and reverse proxy server.
3. Caddy - An automated web server with automatic HTTPS.

Developer Tools & IDEs #

1. Visual Studio Code - A code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
2. Eclipse - An open-source integrated development environment (IDE).
3. IntelliJ IDEA - A powerful IDE for JVM-based languages like Java, Kotlin, Scala and Android.

Learning & Educational Resources #

1. Khan Academy - Provides free online education for a variety of subjects.
2. Moodle - An open-source course management system that can be used to create an online learning environment.
3. Canvas - A cloud-based learning management system (LMS).
4. edX - An online learning platform founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Game Servers #

1. Minecraft Server - To run your own Minecraft server.
2. SteamCMD - Steam’s content delivery tool to help manage game updates on dedicated servers.
3. ARK: Survival Evolved Server - To host a survival multiplayer game server for ARK.

File Storage & Backup #

1. BorgBackup - A deduplicating backup program that supports file and block storage.
2. Bacula - An open-source enterprise-level data protection, restore, and recovery system.
3. Rclone - A tool to sync directories between cloud storage providers.

Media Streaming & DVR #

1. Emby - For centralized media streaming within your network.
2. MediaPortal - A free open source media center software for Microsoft Windows.
3. DVR-PC - A complete TV recording, streaming and live TV viewing solution that runs on Linux (and Windows) PCs.

Other Tools #

1. Mattermost - Team communication tool, which also has a collaboration suite component.
2. GitPod - A web-based code server with pre-configured tools for full-stack development environments.
3. GitBucket - An easily installable GitHub compatible Git server written in Scala.
4. Zabbix - For monitoring your infrastructure and applications.