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Deploy-your-own-SaaS: “only yours” cloud services for everyday needs

napcae 7y ago
There is also this collection of self hosted services: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted
- pas 7y ago
  It would be great to label the multitenancy-capable ones, so hackers/geeks/enthusiasts/IT-persons could provide these things to their friends and family. Or is that too much responsibility/power?
  - organsnyder 7y ago
    Seems like that negates most of the benefits of self-hosted: you're dependent on an internet connection (now likely two residential-class connections instead of one), it can go away without notice, you don't have absolute control over what happens to your data... If I had to choose between traditional cloud services and a friend providing best-effort service, I'm going to go with the former.
    - hunter2_ 7y ago
      The very beginning of the readme is all about commercial, not residential, hosting. "Self" for the code, but not for the infra.
    - pas 7y ago
      Umm.. why would someone run it out of their kitchen? I mean if I happen to run a VPS with a bunch of stuff for myself, I would want them to handle multiple users, so I can enroll friends/family.
- ekianjo 7y ago
  Yes, the present link was entirely redundant as awesome-selfhosted is better written overall with proper license information as well.
  - bachmeier 7y ago
    TBH, I used awesome-selfhosted a few times in the past, and at least at that time it needed to be cleaned out. Dead projects (demos were dead links and such), projects that would no longer install, and low quality projects were all problems I encountered. It certainly has more entries, but I'm not sure that's a good thing.
    - ekianjo 7y ago
      That's going to be the same kind of problem as with all list living online: it needs curation and dedicated efforts to keep it up to date.
- maxwell 7y ago
  This one also includes https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin, with search/profiles/lists: https://lucidindex.com/self-hosted https://lucidindex.com/self-hosted
- yread 7y ago
  Does anyone know a self hosted licensing server? A sevice that software could call with a license key and some stats, and it would verify the license, the number of users or whatever and log the stats.
  - zelon88 7y ago
    There are on-prem options for developers to build DRM, if that's what you're asking. Of course the software has to be built to utilize the license server. CodeMeter comes to mind.
  - vbsteven 7y ago
    I’m working on exactly this but I don’t have a clear estimate on when we’ll be able to launch. If you are interested in beta testing check out license.io or email me at steven@quantus.io
  - neya 7y ago
    If I understood your requirement correctly, there was a Wordpress plugin that did similar (if you don't mind running a Wordpress instance though). It's supposed to be OSS as well, so I guess there's copies of the source available elsewhere too. In any case if you'd like to purchase their official license: https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/software-licensing/ https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/software-licensin...
  - jiveturkey 7y ago
    flexlm is the standard one
smashah 7y ago
Home assistant's add-on store has a lot of these ready to go. https://community.home-assistant.io/tags/hassio-repository https://community.home-assistant.io/tags/hassio-repository
- OJFord 7y ago
  I didn't know HA had plugins like this, seems weird, HA itself is one of these things, not some sort of parent thing to which they're deployed. That's how I see it anyway.
  - JonnyaiR 7y ago
    Hass.io is homeassistants distribution for raspberry pi (and I think other devices as well) which runs docker and home assistant itself. The plugins allow to extend homeassistant with standalone software e.g. MariaDB or mosquitto. Those programs aren't part of or written for homeassistant but are accessed through network.
  - organsnyder 7y ago
    Depends on how you're running it. When I was running hass.io on a RaPi, I used a few of those plugins (including PiHole). Now that I'm running HA in a VM on a bigger machine, it makes more sense to run those services as separate VMs alongside it.
    - hunter2_ 7y ago
      I've been trying to decide between these options myself. I was never happy with the slow restarts and potential for microSD failure when I ran HA on a RaPi3 (years ago, legacy AIO on stock Raspbian) so I haven't kept up with it and now want to start from scratch on something like a NUC. Do I make Hass.io a VM along side other VMs for PiHole, my LAMP website, etc? It will be idle so much that low power/heat during idle is significantly important, but I love the simplicity of reverting an isolated service back to a snapshot after I break it. I suspect a single OS on metal with each of these in a Docker container would be more efficient, but I haven't played with containers before.
art4ur 7y ago
It's easy to forget that sometimes you don't really need to host things. I used to run a Next Cloud server for syncing my documents, contacts, and calendar with all my devices. I'd rarely use a device that was not mine to access those things. I've switched to Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/) and DecSync (https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync) and that's replaced 95% of what Next Cloud did for me. Your use case might differ from mine quite a bit, but for me it was the best way to go. No server to babysit and everything "Just Works™".
- ShamelessC 7y ago
  Do you mean you switched to a hosted Syncthing? I'm looking into Nextcloud and syncthing. A lot of people suggested Nextcloud. What do you like better about syncthing?
  - DenseComet 7y ago
    Syncthing is not a hosted service, rather its a p2p way to sync files and other things between your devices. It relies on the bittorrent protocol, so you don't need to have a central server. What you can do though, is install it on a NAS as well, so that files are also synced to a central location.
  - rollanders 7y ago
    With syncthing or the similar Resilio you can sync folders between your computers. This works best if you also install it on a NAS so as intermediate storage constantly available. Nextcloud can do this also but adds a lot of other functionality. This is a cloud. You can access your files from any device. You can upload photos from your mobile. You can share files. You can create and edit documents. Play music. Show your photos. There are many apps adding further functionality. And you can install Nextcloud on your NAS at home or any VPS service
thequailman 7y ago
Is there really a market for a self hosted B2C SaaS options? Would it be enough of a differentiator to drive business away from competitors?
- zelon88 7y ago
  I think so. I literally will not look at most services unless there is an on-prem option. To the extent where I will regularly design my own solution instead of deploying something Cloud based.
  - thequailman 7y ago
    How turn key do you expect the self hosted option to be? If it contains a lot of other software like SQL and Redis, would you be comfortable installing it or would you expect the option to bundle it in some kind of installer? Would you be OK with using a container, or would you want binaries?
    - d0100 7y ago
      In my dream world, all open source software would consist of a single binary and the only third party need would be a DB (preferentially Postgres or MySQL). Must be why I like Go so much
      - SanchoPanda 7y ago
        I share your dream world. Sadly I never even come close to carrying out it out when I build a small thing for myself.
- reaperducer 7y ago
  Yes. Especially in fields where privacy and/or security are required. (Think healthcare, corrections, and more)
bullen 7y ago
Or you just make your own HTTP app server with integrated distributed JSON database and self host on a raspberry cluster: https://github.com/tinspin/rupy https://github.com/tinspin/rupy
- triangleman 7y ago
  So this is sort of like a barebones mongo db? Looks very cool.
  - bullen 7y ago
    It's inverted, I put the db on the app server so it talks HTTP natively; but the app server is also non-blocking async. concurrent so it's not only a toy. I call it Joint Parallel, because that's the best term to describe that many cores can co-operate on the same memory at the "same time".
dalacv 7y ago
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djsumdog 7y ago
I wrote this a while back to build and run my own apps in containers: https://github.com/sumdog/bee2 https://github.com/sumdog/bee2 It's not really ready for general use, but I'm still glad I wrote it for myself. It hits all my use cases, taught me a lot about the Docker Engine API and helps me put up new self-hosted stuff really quickly. I might use it to deploy some stuff from this list.
franky47 7y ago
See also Framasoft [1] which has a collection of self-hostable free software services to replace most of Google (and other walled garden companies) products. [1] https://framasoft.org/en/ https://framasoft.org/en/
marknadal 7y ago
Could you also add "Deploy Your Own Firebase"? Our project ( https://github.com/amark/gun https://github.com/amark/gun ) gets 1M+ downloads a month and can be self-hosted easily with a 1-click deploy into production. Will try to make a PR when I get to my laptop. :)
DaniAkash 7y ago
It was awesome until I realized I had to deploy them on AWS or GCP
- Legogris 7y ago
  Where did you get that idea? Anything here should run fine on bare-metal.
dangus 7y ago
It's a nice list of really useful services. However, it should also be pointed out that it's also a deploy-your-own-unpaid-system-administrator-job. A lot of the value in SaaS products is the service provided of someone else maintaining it. The maintenance and security patching for running all this stuff, especially on the open Internet, that would quickly become a part time job. So, I'd say that for most people with a limited time budget, it's worth the cost to simply find a high quality, paid SaaS provider for many of these services. An example on from list: deploying your own email server and depending on it for your important communications is something that almost nobody should attempt on their own. Instead, most people should look to migrate from free providers that could do things like close your account/delete your data at any time, to paid ones that treat you like a paying customer.
- bisby 7y ago
  "Host your own" isn't about simplicity or cost necessarily. For me, it's about controlling data. I have my own media server, because when netflix removes friends, ill still be able to watch it. sure that means i have to buy the box set of friends for like 100$, which is 10 months of netflix into a single show. but i never have to worry about that going away. I'd rather have a raspberry pi with a webcam with motionEye letting me monitor my house than feeding private data into a company a dont trust. This is also a hobby for me that has benefited me in my job on multiple occasions, and I only do it for services that I'm ok with downtime on (I've outsourced my email even though that's the data I would love to control the most, I'm not going to mess around with downtime on that). I absolutely wouldn't recommend any of these things for my grandma. Also, "unpaid system administrator job" can be a bit of an extreme analogy. I do spend non-zero time working on these things... but because I was using this as a way to practice actual system admin things, they are generally set up for stability. there isn't much work to put into it after setup. Unchanged software rarely just suddenly starts breaking for no reason, especially when the traffic on it is low because there are only 2 people using the service. (again, I'm aware that self hosting email has all sorts of "you need to keep spam filter stuff up to date" weirdness, but I wouldn't advocate for that). Other than email, anything on this list would be great for someone who wants to keep data in home, as long as they know the scope of how much free time they have vs their desired reliability.
kemenaran 7y ago
For your self-hosted SaaS needs, Yunohost is awesome. One-click install of many apps and services – but more impressively one-click upgrades as well. Nice, user-friendly, very little maintenance required. Self-hosting for people who don’t want to do system administration. I’ve been running a Yunohost server for the past three years, adding and removing various services on the fly. Love to use it, and the great work of people behind this. https://yunohost.org https://yunohost.org
- iN7h33nD 7y ago
  Same here. I don't use any of the yunhost apps though. Instead I use docker images and the redirect community yunhost app to route to them. Eventually I want to run yunhost itself in a docker container. Regardless it has been Rock solid for me for about three years as well
indymike 7y ago
I love these lists. That said, it reminds me of the apps that come with inexpensive Cpanel type hosting where many of the same apps are one-click installs. Would be awesome if static ips for home were easier & cheaper.
- gramakri 7y ago
  cpanel can only handle PHP apps. I think Cloudron is an alternative for modern web apps which are written in various languages as it uses Docker internally.
techindex 7y ago
Something similar that I've been working on: https://selfhostedsource.tech https://selfhostedsource.tech

There is also this collection of self hosted services: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted

pas 7y ago
It would be great to label the multitenancy-capable ones, so hackers/geeks/enthusiasts/IT-persons could provide these things to their friends and family. Or is that too much responsibility/power?
- organsnyder 7y ago
  Seems like that negates most of the benefits of self-hosted: you're dependent on an internet connection (now likely two residential-class connections instead of one), it can go away without notice, you don't have absolute control over what happens to your data... If I had to choose between traditional cloud services and a friend providing best-effort service, I'm going to go with the former.
  - hunter2_ 7y ago
    The very beginning of the readme is all about commercial, not residential, hosting. "Self" for the code, but not for the infra.
  - pas 7y ago
    Umm.. why would someone run it out of their kitchen? I mean if I happen to run a VPS with a bunch of stuff for myself, I would want them to handle multiple users, so I can enroll friends/family.
ekianjo 7y ago
Yes, the present link was entirely redundant as awesome-selfhosted is better written overall with proper license information as well.
- bachmeier 7y ago
  TBH, I used awesome-selfhosted a few times in the past, and at least at that time it needed to be cleaned out. Dead projects (demos were dead links and such), projects that would no longer install, and low quality projects were all problems I encountered. It certainly has more entries, but I'm not sure that's a good thing.
  - ekianjo 7y ago
    That's going to be the same kind of problem as with all list living online: it needs curation and dedicated efforts to keep it up to date.
maxwell 7y ago
This one also includes https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin, with search/profiles/lists: https://lucidindex.com/self-hosted https://lucidindex.com/self-hosted
yread 7y ago
Does anyone know a self hosted licensing server? A sevice that software could call with a license key and some stats, and it would verify the license, the number of users or whatever and log the stats.
- zelon88 7y ago
  There are on-prem options for developers to build DRM, if that's what you're asking. Of course the software has to be built to utilize the license server. CodeMeter comes to mind.
- vbsteven 7y ago
  I’m working on exactly this but I don’t have a clear estimate on when we’ll be able to launch. If you are interested in beta testing check out license.io or email me at steven@quantus.io
- neya 7y ago
  If I understood your requirement correctly, there was a Wordpress plugin that did similar (if you don't mind running a Wordpress instance though). It's supposed to be OSS as well, so I guess there's copies of the source available elsewhere too. In any case if you'd like to purchase their official license: https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/software-licensing/ https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/software-licensin...
- jiveturkey 7y ago
  flexlm is the standard one

smashah 7y ago

Home assistant's add-on store has a lot of these ready to go. https://community.home-assistant.io/tags/hassio-repository https://community.home-assistant.io/tags/hassio-repository

OJFord 7y ago
I didn't know HA had plugins like this, seems weird, HA itself is one of these things, not some sort of parent thing to which they're deployed. That's how I see it anyway.
- JonnyaiR 7y ago
  Hass.io is homeassistants distribution for raspberry pi (and I think other devices as well) which runs docker and home assistant itself. The plugins allow to extend homeassistant with standalone software e.g. MariaDB or mosquitto. Those programs aren't part of or written for homeassistant but are accessed through network.
- organsnyder 7y ago
  Depends on how you're running it. When I was running hass.io on a RaPi, I used a few of those plugins (including PiHole). Now that I'm running HA in a VM on a bigger machine, it makes more sense to run those services as separate VMs alongside it.
  - hunter2_ 7y ago
    I've been trying to decide between these options myself. I was never happy with the slow restarts and potential for microSD failure when I ran HA on a RaPi3 (years ago, legacy AIO on stock Raspbian) so I haven't kept up with it and now want to start from scratch on something like a NUC. Do I make Hass.io a VM along side other VMs for PiHole, my LAMP website, etc? It will be idle so much that low power/heat during idle is significantly important, but I love the simplicity of reverting an isolated service back to a snapshot after I break it. I suspect a single OS on metal with each of these in a Docker container would be more efficient, but I haven't played with containers before.

art4ur 7y ago

It's easy to forget that sometimes you don't really need to host things. I used to run a Next Cloud server for syncing my documents, contacts, and calendar with all my devices. I'd rarely use a device that was not mine to access those things. I've switched to Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/) and DecSync (https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync) and that's replaced 95% of what Next Cloud did for me. Your use case might differ from mine quite a bit, but for me it was the best way to go. No server to babysit and everything "Just Works™".

ShamelessC 7y ago
Do you mean you switched to a hosted Syncthing? I'm looking into Nextcloud and syncthing. A lot of people suggested Nextcloud. What do you like better about syncthing?
- DenseComet 7y ago
  Syncthing is not a hosted service, rather its a p2p way to sync files and other things between your devices. It relies on the bittorrent protocol, so you don't need to have a central server. What you can do though, is install it on a NAS as well, so that files are also synced to a central location.
- rollanders 7y ago
  With syncthing or the similar Resilio you can sync folders between your computers. This works best if you also install it on a NAS so as intermediate storage constantly available. Nextcloud can do this also but adds a lot of other functionality. This is a cloud. You can access your files from any device. You can upload photos from your mobile. You can share files. You can create and edit documents. Play music. Show your photos. There are many apps adding further functionality. And you can install Nextcloud on your NAS at home or any VPS service

thequailman 7y ago

Is there really a market for a self hosted B2C SaaS options? Would it be enough of a differentiator to drive business away from competitors?

zelon88 7y ago
I think so. I literally will not look at most services unless there is an on-prem option. To the extent where I will regularly design my own solution instead of deploying something Cloud based.
- thequailman 7y ago
  How turn key do you expect the self hosted option to be? If it contains a lot of other software like SQL and Redis, would you be comfortable installing it or would you expect the option to bundle it in some kind of installer? Would you be OK with using a container, or would you want binaries?
  - d0100 7y ago
    In my dream world, all open source software would consist of a single binary and the only third party need would be a DB (preferentially Postgres or MySQL). Must be why I like Go so much
    - SanchoPanda 7y ago
      I share your dream world. Sadly I never even come close to carrying out it out when I build a small thing for myself.
reaperducer 7y ago
Yes. Especially in fields where privacy and/or security are required. (Think healthcare, corrections, and more)

bullen 7y ago

Or you just make your own HTTP app server with integrated distributed JSON database and self host on a raspberry cluster: https://github.com/tinspin/rupy https://github.com/tinspin/rupy

triangleman 7y ago
So this is sort of like a barebones mongo db? Looks very cool.
- bullen 7y ago
  It's inverted, I put the db on the app server so it talks HTTP natively; but the app server is also non-blocking async. concurrent so it's not only a toy. I call it Joint Parallel, because that's the best term to describe that many cores can co-operate on the same memory at the "same time".

dalacv 7y ago

Maxapex

sara1240 7y ago

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djsumdog 7y ago

I wrote this a while back to build and run my own apps in containers: https://github.com/sumdog/bee2 https://github.com/sumdog/bee2 It's not really ready for general use, but I'm still glad I wrote it for myself. It hits all my use cases, taught me a lot about the Docker Engine API and helps me put up new self-hosted stuff really quickly. I might use it to deploy some stuff from this list.

franky47 7y ago

See also Framasoft [1] which has a collection of self-hostable free software services to replace most of Google (and other walled garden companies) products. [1] https://framasoft.org/en/ https://framasoft.org/en/

marknadal 7y ago

Could you also add "Deploy Your Own Firebase"? Our project ( https://github.com/amark/gun https://github.com/amark/gun ) gets 1M+ downloads a month and can be self-hosted easily with a 1-click deploy into production. Will try to make a PR when I get to my laptop. :)

DaniAkash 7y ago

It was awesome until I realized I had to deploy them on AWS or GCP

Legogris 7y ago
Where did you get that idea? Anything here should run fine on bare-metal.

dangus 7y ago

It's a nice list of really useful services. However, it should also be pointed out that it's also a deploy-your-own-unpaid-system-administrator-job. A lot of the value in SaaS products is the service provided of someone else maintaining it. The maintenance and security patching for running all this stuff, especially on the open Internet, that would quickly become a part time job. So, I'd say that for most people with a limited time budget, it's worth the cost to simply find a high quality, paid SaaS provider for many of these services. An example on from list: deploying your own email server and depending on it for your important communications is something that almost nobody should attempt on their own. Instead, most people should look to migrate from free providers that could do things like close your account/delete your data at any time, to paid ones that treat you like a paying customer.

bisby 7y ago
"Host your own" isn't about simplicity or cost necessarily. For me, it's about controlling data. I have my own media server, because when netflix removes friends, ill still be able to watch it. sure that means i have to buy the box set of friends for like 100$, which is 10 months of netflix into a single show. but i never have to worry about that going away. I'd rather have a raspberry pi with a webcam with motionEye letting me monitor my house than feeding private data into a company a dont trust. This is also a hobby for me that has benefited me in my job on multiple occasions, and I only do it for services that I'm ok with downtime on (I've outsourced my email even though that's the data I would love to control the most, I'm not going to mess around with downtime on that). I absolutely wouldn't recommend any of these things for my grandma. Also, "unpaid system administrator job" can be a bit of an extreme analogy. I do spend non-zero time working on these things... but because I was using this as a way to practice actual system admin things, they are generally set up for stability. there isn't much work to put into it after setup. Unchanged software rarely just suddenly starts breaking for no reason, especially when the traffic on it is low because there are only 2 people using the service. (again, I'm aware that self hosting email has all sorts of "you need to keep spam filter stuff up to date" weirdness, but I wouldn't advocate for that). Other than email, anything on this list would be great for someone who wants to keep data in home, as long as they know the scope of how much free time they have vs their desired reliability.

kemenaran 7y ago

For your self-hosted SaaS needs, Yunohost is awesome. One-click install of many apps and services – but more impressively one-click upgrades as well. Nice, user-friendly, very little maintenance required. Self-hosting for people who don’t want to do system administration. I’ve been running a Yunohost server for the past three years, adding and removing various services on the fly. Love to use it, and the great work of people behind this. https://yunohost.org https://yunohost.org

iN7h33nD 7y ago
Same here. I don't use any of the yunhost apps though. Instead I use docker images and the redirect community yunhost app to route to them. Eventually I want to run yunhost itself in a docker container. Regardless it has been Rock solid for me for about three years as well

indymike 7y ago

I love these lists. That said, it reminds me of the apps that come with inexpensive Cpanel type hosting where many of the same apps are one-click installs. Would be awesome if static ips for home were easier & cheaper.

gramakri 7y ago
cpanel can only handle PHP apps. I think Cloudron is an alternative for modern web apps which are written in various languages as it uses Docker internally.

techindex 7y ago

Something similar that I've been working on: https://selfhostedsource.tech https://selfhostedsource.tech