Home lab & self-hosting
Run your media, home automation, storage and self-hosted apps on a Mac you own.
The Self-hosting and Home Automation presets bring media servers, downloads, Home Assistant, Zigbee, cameras, IoT, storage / NAS and dozens of self-hosted apps into one sidebar — with backups, the macOS firewall, the Malware Audit and monitoring so your home lab is actually safe to expose.
Services we install or monitor for this
378 services across 25 categories that FrontierStack can install, connect and monitor for this use-case — revealed together when you pick this preset in the app.
Containers40
- Apple Container — Apple's native `container` tool — Linux containers in per-container VMs
- Azure Local — Azure Stack HCI successor — monitored via Azure ARM, no local API
- Colima — Container runtimes on macOS via Lima (Docker/containerd/k8s)
- Dev Containers (VS Code) — Reproducible dev environments in a container
- Docker Swarm — Docker-native clustering (docker swarm / stack)
- Helm — The Kubernetes package manager (charts)
- HPE Morpheus — Hybrid-cloud management & orchestration (REST API)
- Hyper-V Live Migration — Move running Hyper-V VMs between hosts with no downtime
- k0s — Zero-friction single-binary Kubernetes
- k3d — k3s in Docker — lightweight multi-node clusters
- K3s — Lightweight certified Kubernetes (self-hosted)
- kind — Kubernetes IN Docker — disposable clusters
- kubeadm — The official cluster bootstrapper (vanilla K8s)
- Kubernetes — The container orchestrator (kubectl)
- Lima — Linux virtual machines (container machines) on macOS
- MicroK8s — Canonical's low-ops Kubernetes (snap)
- Microsoft Hyper-V — Windows Server hypervisor (Type-1)
- minikube — Local single-node Kubernetes for development
- nerdctl — Docker-compatible CLI for containerd
- Nomad — HashiCorp workload orchestrator (self-hosted)
- Nutanix — HCI platform — AHV hypervisor + Prism management
- OpenShift / OKD — Red Hat's enterprise Kubernetes platform
- OpenShift Virtualization — Run VMs alongside containers on OpenShift (KubeVirt)
- OpenStack — Open-source private-cloud IaaS platform
- OrbStack — Fast Docker & Linux machines for macOS
- Platform9 — Managed Kubernetes / private cloud (SaaS control plane)
- Podman — Daemonless, Docker-compatible containers
- Portainer — Web UI for Docker & Kubernetes (self-hosted)
- Proxmox VE — Open-source virtualization — KVM VMs + LXC containers
- Proxmox VE Live Migration — Live-migrate KVM VMs across Proxmox cluster nodes
- Rancher — Multi-cluster Kubernetes management (self-hosted)
- Rancher Desktop — Desktop Kubernetes + container runtime for Mac
- RKE2 — Rancher's security-focused Kubernetes (Gov-grade)
- Scale Computing HyperCore — SC//HyperCore HCI appliance (HC3) — REST API on :443
- Talos Linux — API-managed immutable OS purpose-built for Kubernetes
- VergeOS — Verge.io — integrated virtualization, storage and networking
- VMware vMotion — Live-migrate running VMs between ESXi hosts
- VMware vSphere — Enterprise virtualization — ESXi hypervisor + vCenter
- Watchtower — Auto-update running Docker containers
- XCP-ng — Open-source Xen hypervisor (XenServer alternative)
Media Servers28
- Airsonic-Advanced — Self-hosted music streaming (Subsonic API)
- Audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook & podcast server
- AzuraCast — Complete self-hosted radio station
- Bazarr — Automatic subtitles for Sonarr/Radarr
- Calibre-Web — Web reader/manager for a Calibre ebook library
- Channels DVR Server — Whole-home DVR for live TV & streaming (self-hosted)
- Emby — Media server with live TV/DVR
- Icecast — Audio streaming server (net radio)
- Immich — Self-hosted photo & video backup (Google Photos alt.)
- Jellyfin — Free home media server (Plex alternative)
- Jellyseerr — Media request manager (Jellyfin/Plex/Emby)
- Kavita — Fast ebook/comic/manga server
- Komga — Comics & manga server (self-hosted)
- MediaMTX — RTSP/RTMP/HLS/WebRTC/SRT media server
- Navidrome — Self-hosted music server (Subsonic-compatible)
- Ombi — Media request system (Plex/Emby/Jellyfin)
- Overseerr — Media request manager for Plex
- Owncast — Self-hosted live streaming + chat
- PeerTube — Federated, P2P video platform (ActivityPub)
- Plex Media Server — Popular home media server
- Restreamer — Restream one input to many platforms
- RomM — Self-hosted ROM manager & player
- SRS — Simple Realtime Server — RTMP/WebRTC/SRT
- Tautulli — Plex monitoring, history & stats
- Tdarr — Distributed media transcoding/health automation
- TSDuck — MPEG transport-stream toolkit (CLI)
- Tvheadend — TV streaming server & DVR (DVB/IPTV)
- Wowza Streaming Engine — Commercial streaming server (RTMP/SRT/HLS)
Monitoring28
- Alertmanager — Route and deduplicate Prometheus alerts (self-hosted)
- Beszel — Lightweight server monitoring hub + agents
- Checkmk — Auto-discovering IT monitoring (self-hosted)
- Datadog — Hosted metrics, logs, traces and synthetics (SaaS)
- Dynatrace — Enterprise observability and AIOps platform
- Glances — Cross-platform system monitor (web/API)
- GoAccess — Real-time access-log analyser (CLI/HTML)
- Grafana — Dashboards for any data source (self-hosted)
- Healthchecks.io — Cron & heartbeat monitoring (cloud or self-hosted)
- Homepage — Self-hosted services dashboard (gethomepage.dev)
- Honeycomb — Observability for high-cardinality events and traces
- Matomo — Full-featured self-hosted web analytics
- Nagios Core — The classic check-based monitor (self-hosted)
- Netdata — Real-time system metrics dashboard
- New Relic — Hosted APM, infrastructure and logs (SaaS)
- Node Exporter — Unix host metrics for Prometheus (self-hosted)
- NUT (Network UPS Tools) — UPS monitoring server (upsd) for many devices
- PeaNUT — Modern web dashboard for NUT UPS servers
- Plausible — Lightweight, privacy-first analytics
- Prometheus — Time-series metrics & alerting (self-hosted)
- Scrutiny — S.M.A.R.T. drive health dashboard
- Sentry — Error tracking and performance monitoring
- Speedtest Tracker — Scheduled internet speed tests + history
- Umami — Simple, privacy-focused analytics (Node)
- Uptime Kuma — Self-hosted uptime monitor
- UptimeRobot — Cloud uptime/SSL monitoring with status pages
- Windows Exporter — Windows host metrics for Prometheus (remote)
- Zabbix — Enterprise monitoring — agents, SNMP, triggers (self-hosted)
Storage & NAS28
- Ceph — Distributed object/block/file storage cluster (self-hosted)
- Dropbox — Cloud file sync & share (app + API)
- Fibre Channel (SAN) — FC SAN fabric — HBA ports, WWNs, multipath
- File Browser — Web file manager for a directory
- Filestash — Web file manager for S3/SFTP/FTP/WebDAV/…
- GigaIO FabreX — PCIe/CXL memory fabric — composable GPU pooling
- GlusterFS — Scale-out network filesystem (self-hosted)
- InfiniBand Fabric — InfiniBand HCA/fabric — ports, SM, port-error counters
- iSCSI (SAN) — Block storage over TCP/IP — initiator & target (port 3260)
- Liqid (Composable) — Composable PCIe/CXL fabric — pool & attach GPUs/NVMe
- Netatalk — AFP file sharing for legacy Macs and Xserve estates
- Nextcloud — Files, sync, office & app platform
- NVIDIA NVLink — GPU-to-GPU interconnect — per-link state & bandwidth
- NVIDIA NVSwitch — NVLink switch fabric — Fabric Manager service
- NVMe / NVMe-oF — NVMe SSDs & NVMe-over-Fabrics targets (TCP/RDMA/FC)
- ownCloud — Self-hosted file sync & share
- QNAP QTS — QNAP NAS appliance (QTS/QuTS hero)
- RDMA / RoCE / iWARP — Remote Direct Memory Access fabrics — RoCE & iWARP
- Resilio Sync — P2P file sync (BitTorrent-based)
- Samba — SMB file sharing (+ Time Machine)
- Seafile — File sync & share with client-side encryption (self-hosted)
- Supabase Storage — S3-compatible object storage from Supabase
- Syncthing — Peer-to-peer continuous file sync
- Synology DSM — Synology NAS appliance (DSM)
- TrueNAS — ZFS NAS OS — pools, snapshots, replication (self-hosted)
- Unraid — NAS/server OS — storage array, VMs & Docker
- WEKA — Parallel filesystem for AI/HPC (GPUDirect)
- ZimaOS / CasaOS — Personal-cloud NAS OS for ZimaCube / ZimaBoard (self-hosted)
Chat & Collaboration26
- AIM OSCAR Server — Alternative OSCAR server — make your own AIM chat network
- Anope (IRC services) — IRC services (NickServ/ChanServ) for many IRCds
- Atheme (IRC services) — NickServ/ChanServ services for TS6 IRCds
- Buzz — Group chat for humans + AI agents (Block; cloud or self-hosted)
- Discord — Community chat & voice (cloud)
- Ergo (IRCd) — Modern single-binary IRC server (IRCv3, built-in services)
- InspIRCd — Modular C++ IRC server (self-hosted)
- Jitsi Meet — Open-source video conferencing (self-hosted)
- KiwiIRC — Web IRC client + gateway (self-hosted)
- Libera.Chat — Public IRC network (FOSS communities) — connect, not self-host
- Matrix (Synapse + Element) — Open, federated chat — self-hosted (Docker)
- Mattermost — Open-source Slack alternative (self-hosted)
- Mumble — Open-source low-latency voice (self-hosted)
- Open OSCAR Server — Self-hostable AIM/ICQ (OSCAR) server — run your own AIM
- Prosody — Lightweight XMPP (Messages) server
- Rocket.Chat — Open-source team chat platform (self-hosted)
- Session — Onion-routed private messenger (no phone number)
- SimpleX Chat — Private messenger with no user IDs (self-hostable relays)
- Slack — Team chat & workflows (cloud)
- Solanum (IRCd) — The IRCd that runs Libera.Chat (charybdis fork)
- TeamSpeak — Low-latency voice server (self-hosted)
- Telegram — Cloud messaging with a powerful Bot API (cloud)
- The Lounge — Self-hosted web IRC client (always-on)
- UnrealIRCd — Popular full-featured IRC server (self-hosted)
- ZNC (IRC bouncer) — IRC bouncer — stay connected, replay history
- Zulip — Threaded team chat (self-hosted or cloud)
Knowledge & Memory22
- AFFiNE — Docs + whiteboard + database (Notion/Miro alt.)
- AppFlowy — Open-source Notion alternative (docs/boards/DBs)
- BookStack — Self-hosted docs/wiki organised as books (PHP)
- Docmost — Open-source collaborative wiki & docs (Confluence/Notion alt.)
- DokuWiki — Flat-file PHP wiki — the closest macOS Server “Wiki” replacement
- Graphify — Turn a codebase into a queryable knowledge graph (AI coding-assistant skill)
- GraphRAG — Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (Microsoft)
- Joplin Server — Sync server for Joplin notes (E2EE)
- Karakeep — AI bookmark/read-it-later (formerly Hoarder)
- Linkding — Minimal, fast self-hosted bookmark manager
- Logseq — Local-first outliner & PKM (Markdown/Org)
- MediaWiki — The wiki engine behind Wikipedia (PHP/MySQL)
- Memos — Lightweight, privacy-first notes/memo hub
- Notion — All-in-one workspace — docs, wikis, databases (cloud)
- Outline — Self-hosted team knowledge base (real-time)
- Readwise — Highlights sync & read-later (cloud API)
- Shiori — Simple self-hosted bookmark manager (Go)
- SurfSense — Self-hosted NotebookLM/Perplexity alternative
- Trilium Notes — Hierarchical personal notes (self-hosted server + app)
- Wallabag — Self-hosted read-it-later (Pocket alternative)
- Wiki.js — Modern self-hosted wiki (Node.js)
- Zotero — Reference & research manager (app + API)
Version Control21
- AWS CodeCommit — Managed private Git repositories on AWS (API)
- Bitbucket — Atlassian Git hosting — Cloud or self-hosted (Data Center)
- code.storage — Code hosting / storage platform (cloud) — see code.storage
- Codeberg — Free community Git hosting (Forgejo, nonprofit)
- Entire — Code collaboration platform (cloud) — see entire.io
- Forgejo — Community fork of Gitea (Codeberg)
- gh-dash — Terminal dashboard for GitHub PRs & issues (gh extension)
- Gitea — Lightweight self-hosted Git service
- Gitea Actions Runner — CI runner for Gitea/Forgejo Actions
- GitHub — The Git host — live account dashboard (cloud)
- GitHub Enterprise — Self-hosted / managed GitHub for organizations
- GitLab — Full DevOps platform — repos, MRs, registry (cloud or self-hosted)
- Google Code (archive) — Defunct — read-only archive for migrating old projects
- Graphite — Stacked-PR code review on top of GitHub (cloud + CLI)
- Jujutsu (jj) — Git-compatible VCS with a simpler, more powerful model
- Phabricator / Phorge — Self-hosted code review & repos (now maintained as Phorge)
- Pierre — Fast code review & collaboration on Git (cloud)
- SourceForge — Open-source project hosting & downloads (cloud)
- SourceHut — Lightweight, email-driven Git suite (cloud or self-hosted)
- Subversion (SVN) — Apache Subversion — centralized version control (self-hosted)
- Webhook (git-deploy) — Push-to-deploy via webhooks
Fleet & Remote19
- AnyDesk — Cross-platform remote desktop
- Apache Guacamole — Clientless RDP, VNC and SSH gateway
- ATEN KVM over IP — KVM-over-IP switches & dongles (web UI)
- Cockpit — Browser console for Linux servers and Raspberry Pi
- GL.iNet Comet (GL-RM1) — Compact KVM-over-IP with a browser console
- GL.iNet Comet Pro (GL-RM10) — KVM-over-IP with a built-in smart power plug
- JetKVM — Compact, low-cost KVM-over-IP device
- Jump Desktop — Fast, secure remote desktop (RDP/VNC/Fluid)
- MeshCentral — Self-hosted web RMM and remote control
- NanoKVM — Sipeed open KVM-over-IP (RISC-V)
- PiKVM — Open-source KVM-over-IP (Raspberry Pi)
- Raritan Dominion KX — Enterprise KVM-over-IP switch (web UI)
- RustDesk — Open-source remote desktop with optional self-host relay
- Screens — Polished VNC client for Mac & iOS (Edovia)
- Tactical RMM — Open-source RMM for Windows-focused fleets
- TinyPilot — KVM-over-IP appliance (web UI)
- Windows Admin Center — Browser-based management for Windows Server fleets
- Windows Remote Desktop — RDP access to Windows machines
- WinRM / PowerShell Remoting — Remote command channel for Windows servers
Routers & Firewalls19
- Cisco Secure Firewall — Cisco NGFW (Firepower/ASA) — FMC/FDM API (commercial)
- Cradlepoint — Cellular/5G edge routers (NCOS + NetCloud)
- Firewalla — Home/SMB security router (cloud MSP API)
- FortiGate — Fortinet next-gen firewall — REST API (commercial)
- IPFire — Hardened open-source Linux firewall (web UI)
- MikroTik (RouterOS) — RouterOS devices — REST API (v7+)
- OpenWrt — Open-source router firmware (LuCI / ubus)
- OPNsense — Open-source firewall/router OS (REST API)
- Palo Alto Networks — PAN-OS next-gen firewall — XML/REST API (commercial)
- Peplink — SD-WAN routers with multi-WAN failover/bonding
- pfSense — FreeBSD firewall/router OS (REST via package)
- PoE Switch (RFC 3621) — Managed PoE switch — port power, budget & cycling over SNMP
- Sophos Firewall — Next-gen firewall appliance — web UI + API (commercial)
- UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) — Easy iptables/nftables host firewall for Linux servers (manage over SSH)
- UniFi — Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway / Dream Machine + Network controller
- UniFi OS Server — Self-hosted UniFi OS — run the full stack on your own Mac or Linux box
- Untangle / Arista NG Firewall — Debian network gateway — web admin (commercial)
- VyOS — Linux network OS — unified CLI + HTTPS API
- WatchGuard Firebox — Fireware firewall appliance — web UI + Cloud API (commercial)
Databases16
- Apache Cassandra — Distributed wide-column database
- Apache CouchDB — Document database with HTTP API and sync
- CockroachDB — Distributed SQL database
- Couchbase Server — Distributed document, key-value and search database
- Firebase — Google's backend-as-a-service — Firestore, Auth, Storage, Functions (cloud)
- Microsoft SQL Server — Microsoft relational database for Windows and Linux
- MongoDB — Document (NoSQL) database
- Neo4j — Graph database with Cypher query language
- Neon — Serverless Postgres — autoscaling & branching (cloud API)
- Oracle Database — Enterprise relational database
- Patroni — HA PostgreSQL — automatic failover
- PlanetScale — Hosted MySQL with database branching (cloud API)
- PocketBase — Open-source backend in one file (SQLite + auth + realtime)
- PostgREST — Instant REST API over a PostgreSQL database
- ScyllaDB — High-performance Cassandra-compatible database
- Turso — Distributed SQLite (libSQL) at the edge (cloud API)
Mail15
- Apache SpamAssassin — Rule-based spam classifier (self-hosted)
- Dovecot — IMAP/POP3 mail delivery server
- HEY — 37signals hosted email & calendar (Imbox, Screener, Paper Trail)
- Inbox Zero — Open-source AI email assistant (self-hosted)
- Maddy Mail Server — Composable single-binary mail server (SMTP/IMAP)
- mailcow — Dockerized full mail-server suite (self-hosted)
- MailScanner — Email security framework / gateway (self-hosted)
- Modoboa — Mail hosting & management platform (self-hosted)
- OpenDKIM — DKIM signing & verification milter (self-hosted)
- OpenDMARC — DMARC policy filter & reporting (self-hosted)
- Postfix — SMTP mail transfer agent
- Proton — Encrypted mail, VPN, drive & passwords (cloud)
- Proxmox Mail Gateway — Anti-spam/AV email gateway appliance (self-hosted)
- Rspamd — Fast spam-filtering system (self-hosted)
- Stalwart Mail Server — All-in-one secure mail server (SMTP/IMAP/JMAP)
Self-Hosted Apps14
- Dashy — Feature-rich homelab dashboard
- FreshRSS — Self-hosted RSS reader (PHP)
- Grocy — Groceries & household ERP
- Heimdall — Simple application start page
- Homer — Static, fast services dashboard (YAML)
- Mealie — Self-hosted recipe manager & meal planner
- Miniflux — Minimalist RSS reader (Go)
- Mixpost — Self-hosted social media scheduling
- Paperless-AI — AI auto-tagging & chat for Paperless-ngx
- Paperless-ngx — Scan, OCR & archive documents
- PhotoPrism — AI-powered photo library
- Pimcore — Open-source PIM / DAM / CMS platform (self-hosted)
- ResourceSpace — Open-source digital asset management (self-hosted)
- Tandoor — Recipe manager & meal planner
Runtimes13
- .NET (ASP.NET Core) — Run ASP.NET Core & Blazor apps (Kestrel)
- Astro — Content-first framework — zero JS by default; popular headless-WordPress front end
- code-server — VS Code in the browser (self-hosted)
- Fermyon Spin — Serverless WebAssembly apps & HTTP microservices
- Next.js — React framework served by a Node process (SSR/SSG)
- Nuxt (Vue) — Vue framework served by a Node process (SSR/SSG)
- Supabase Edge Functions — Deno serverless functions on the edge
- SvelteKit (Svelte) — Svelte app framework served by a Node process (SSR/SSG)
- Tailwind CSS — Utility-first CSS — standalone build CLI (no Node)
- wasmCloud — Distributed WebAssembly platform (CNCF)
- WasmEdge — Lightweight WASM runtime for cloud/edge & AI (CNCF)
- Wasmer — WebAssembly runtime with a package registry
- Wasmtime — Bytecode Alliance WebAssembly runtime (WASI)
Download Automation11
- Lidarr — Automated music collection management (self-hosted)
- NZBGet — Lightweight, efficient Usenet downloader (self-hosted)
- Pinchflat — Self-hosted YouTube media downloader/archiver
- Prowlarr — Indexer manager for the *arr stack
- qBittorrent — Open-source BitTorrent client with Web UI (self-hosted)
- Radarr — Automated movie management (self-hosted)
- Readarr — Automated book & audiobook management (self-hosted)
- SABnzbd — Usenet (NZB) downloader with Web UI (self-hosted)
- Sonarr — Automated TV series management (self-hosted)
- Transmission — Lightweight BitTorrent client + daemon (self-hosted)
- Tube Archivist — Self-hosted YouTube archive (index + watch)
DNS10
- AdGuard Home — Network-wide ad/tracker-blocking DNS (self-hosted)
- DNSimple — Managed DNS + domain registrar — live zone/record management
- Dnsmasq — Lightweight DNS forwarder + DHCP + TFTP
- Infoblox NIOS (DDI) — Enterprise DNS / DHCP / IPAM appliance (DDI)
- ISC DHCP — Classic ISC dhcpd (EOL — migrate to Kea)
- Kea DHCP — ISC's modern DHCPv4/DHCPv6 server (REST + DB back-ends)
- Nebula Sync — Sync configuration across Pi-hole instances
- Pi-hole — Network-wide ad/tracker-blocking DNS sinkhole
- udhcpd (BusyBox) — Tiny DHCP server (BusyBox / embedded)
- Windows Server DHCP — DHCP Server role on Windows Server
Secrets & Vaults10
- 1Password — Password manager with developer secrets API (cloud)
- 1Password SCIM Bridge — Automated 1Password user provisioning (self-hosted bridge)
- Bitwarden — Password manager — cloud or official self-host
- Doppler — Hosted secrets & config manager (cloud)
- HashiCorp Vault — Secrets, PKI & dynamic credentials (self-hosted)
- Infisical — Open-source secrets for app configs (cloud or self-hosted)
- Keeper Security — Password manager & Secrets Manager (cloud API)
- Let's Encrypt — Free TLS certificates via ACME — health & renewal monitor
- Step CA — Your own private certificate authority (self-hosted)
- Vaultwarden — Self-hosted Bitwarden-compatible server (Docker)
Calendars10
- Apple Calendar Server — Migrate the old macOS Server CalDAV
- Baïkal — PHP CalDAV/CardDAV server (SabreDAV)
- Cal.com — Open-source scheduling (self-hostable)
- Calendly — Hosted scheduling / booking links
- DAViCal — PHP/PostgreSQL CalDAV server
- Google Calendar — Hosted calendar (CalDAV / API)
- Nextcloud Calendar — Calendar app on a Nextcloud server
- Outlook Calendar — Microsoft 365 calendar (Graph API)
- Radicale — Lightweight CalDAV/CardDAV server
- SOGo — Groupware (CalDAV/CardDAV/ActiveSync)
Backup9
- BorgBackup — Deduplicating encrypted backups over SSH
- Databasus — Self-hosted database backup & point-in-time recovery
- Dropbox (Backup Target) — Use Dropbox as an encrypted off-site backup destination (restic / rclone)
- Duplicati — Web UI backups to cloud storage
- Kopia — Encrypted snapshots to cloud or local storage
- rclone — Sync & mount 70+ cloud storages
- Restic — Fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups
- Synology Active Backup for Business — Centralized backup for PCs, servers, VMs & SaaS (Synology)
- Veeam Backup & Replication — Enterprise VM, server and cloud backup
Object Storage & S3-Compatible9
- Backblaze B2 — Low-cost cloud object storage, S3-compatible (cloud)
- Ceph RGW (RADOS Gateway) — S3/Swift object gateway on a Ceph cluster (self-hosted)
- Cloudflare R2 — S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees (cloud)
- Garage — Lightweight self-hosted S3 object store (Deuxfleurs)
- MinIO — S3-compatible object storage
- OpenStack Swift — Highly-available object store (OpenStack, self-hosted)
- RustFS — High-performance S3-compatible object storage (Rust)
- SeaweedFS — Fast distributed object/file store (self-hosted)
- Wasabi — Hot cloud object storage, S3-compatible, no egress fees (cloud)
Apps & CMS9
- Backdrop CMS — Drupal 7 fork for small-to-medium sites
- Bedrock (Roots) — Composer-managed WordPress boilerplate
- ClassicPress — WordPress fork without the block editor
- Framer — Design-first website builder with hosted CMS (cloud)
- Ghost — Modern publishing & newsletter platform
- Instatic — Self-hosted visual CMS with an AI page editor (open-source)
- Trellis (Roots) — Ansible server provisioning for WordPress
- Webflow — Visual website builder & hosted CMS (cloud)
- WordPress Playground — WordPress running in WebAssembly \u{2014} no server needed
Web Servers6
- Angular CLI — Scaffold, serve & build Angular apps
- Apache Tomcat — Java servlet/JSP application server
- Caddy — Automatic-HTTPS web server / reverse proxy
- Laravel Herd — One-click PHP dev environment (Mac app)
- Microsoft IIS — Windows web server and application platform
- OpenLiteSpeed — High-performance web server with web admin UI
CDN & Edge6
- Akamai — Enterprise CDN, security & edge compute (cloud)
- Amazon CloudFront — AWS CDN tied to S3/EC2 origins (cloud)
- Azure Front Door — Microsoft's global entry point: CDN + WAF + LB (cloud)
- Fastly — Real-time CDN with VCL/Compute edge (cloud)
- Google Cloud CDN — GCP CDN on global load balancing (cloud)
- Imperva — WAF-first CDN & DDoS protection (cloud)
Proxies & Load Balancers4
- keepalived — VRRP virtual IP failover + LVS load balancing
- MySQL Router — Routing for MySQL InnoDB Cluster
- Nginx Proxy Manager — Web-UI reverse proxy (Docker)
- ProxySQL — High-performance MySQL proxy
Networking3
- BIND 9 (named) — Authoritative/recursive DNS server
- netboot.xyz — Network-boot OS installers via PXE/iPXE
- Zeroconf / Bonjour — Zero-configuration service discovery (mDNS/DNS-SD)
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