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

Self-host Duplicati in 2026. LGPL license, ~10K stars, C# — encrypted backup to S3, Backblaze B2, Google Drive, SFTP, and local storage. Scheduling now.

Self-host Excalidraw in 2026. MIT license, ~85K stars, TypeScript — hand-drawn style virtual whiteboard with real-time collaboration and end-to-end encryption.

Self-host Firefly III in 2026. AGPL 3.0, ~16K stars, PHP — double-entry bookkeeping, transaction tracking, budgets, bills, reports, and rules engine now.

Self-host Flarum in 2026. MIT license, ~15K stars, PHP — beautiful, fast, and extensible forum software. Markdown, tags, mentions, real-time updates, and SSO.

Self-host Forgejo in 2026. GPL 3.0, ~11K stars, Go — community fork of Gitea with enhanced federation. Docker setup, Forgejo Actions CI/CD, ActivityPub.

Self-host Forgejo as a GitHub alternative in 2026. Community-governed Gitea fork with Actions CI/CD, packages, and Pages — complete Docker setup guide.

Deploy Formbricks on your own server with Docker Compose. The open source survey and form platform that replaces Typeform, SurveyMonkey, and user research.

Self-host FreshRSS for RSS feed aggregation in 2026. AGPL 3.0, ~10K stars, PHP — Google Reader replacement with multi-user, fever API, mobile apps, full-text.

Self-host FreshRSS in 2026. AGPL 3.0, ~9K stars, PHP — full-featured RSS aggregator with Google Reader API, themes, extensions, and multi-user support.

Self-host Ghost as a blog CMS and newsletter platform in 2026. MIT license, ~46K stars, Node.js — built-in newsletter, memberships, and payments here.

Self-host Gitea on Docker in 2026 — complete setup guide with Postgres, SSH, Gitea Actions CI/CD, and migration from GitHub. Lightweight GitHub alternative.

Self-host Gitea in 2026. MIT license, ~43K stars, Go — full Git hosting with repos, issues, pull requests, CI/CD via Gitea Actions. Single binary Docker.

Self-host Gitness (Harness Open Source) in 2026: Git hosting, CI/CD pipelines, container registry, and secrets management in a single lightweight binary.

Self-host Glances for system monitoring in 2026. LGPL 3.0, ~26K stars, Python — real-time CPU, RAM, disk, network, Docker, processes. Web UI, REST API.

Self-host Gotify in 2026. MIT license, ~10K stars, Go — self-hosted push notification server with persistent message history, WebSocket real-time stream, and.

Self-host Grafana and Prometheus for infrastructure monitoring in 2026. Complete Docker Compose stack with Node Exporter, cAdvisor, Alertmanager, and Loki.