Guides for evaluating, self-hosting, and migrating to open source.

Perplexica is a 33k-star MIT-licensed AI search engine you can run locally. Full Docker Compose setup guide — works with Ollama, OpenAI, Groq, or Anthropic.

Self-host Appsmith in 2026 — the open source Retool alternative for building internal tools. Docker setup, database connections, RBAC, Git sync, and now.

Self-host Mautic in 2026 — the open source HubSpot alternative for email campaigns, contact management, and marketing automation. Docker setup, SMTP config.

Set up automated server backups in 2026 using Restic (deduplication, encryption) and Rclone (cloud sync). Complete setup for VPS backup to Backblaze B2, S3.

MinIO entered maintenance mode in 2025. The best open source S3-compatible storage alternatives in 2026: SeaweedFS, Garage, Ceph RGW, and RustFS — compared.

Self-hosted alternatives to Cloudflare Tunnels in 2026: frp, rathole, Chisel, and WireGuard. Expose local services without opening firewall ports — on your.

Datadog costs $15-35/host/month. The best open source alternatives: Grafana+Prometheus, Netdata, SigNoz, VictoriaMetrics, and Zabbix — compared by use case.

Open source alternatives to PlanetScale (serverless MySQL) and Neon (serverless Postgres) in 2026. Self-host branching, connection pooling, and serverless.

Top open source Google Drive alternatives in 2026 — Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing compared. Cost analysis vs Google One pricing, feature comparison, rclone.

CapRover, Dokku, and Coolify compared as Heroku alternatives for 2026. Feature tables, real-world use cases, git push deploy, pricing, and which one to pick.

Coolify v4, CapRover, and Dokploy compared in 2026. Self-hosted Heroku alternatives with one-click deploys, Docker support, and free tier replacements .

Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes for self-hosted workloads in 2026. Complexity, resource usage, rolling deploys, and when each orchestrator is the right choice.

Dokploy vs Coolify for self-hosted deployments in 2026. Feature comparison, Docker Swarm support, UI differences, licensing, and which one to pick for your.

Gitea vs Forgejo for self-hosted Git in 2026. Gitea (MIT, ~44K stars) vs Forgejo (GPL 3.0, ~10K stars). Both offer Actions CI/CD, container registry, and low.

Set up a complete self-hosted observability stack with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki in 2026. Metrics, logs, alerting, and pre-built dashboards — all in Docker.

Step-by-step guide to migrating from AWS S3 to MinIO (or SeaweedFS) on your own server in 2026. Data migration with rclone, app code changes, cost now.