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Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by blfr »

I'm newly enchanted with Mailpile.

https://www.mailpile.is/

Technically it's an email client but since it works in your browser anyway, you can run it on a server as a personal webmail. It can work with a local MTA or regular accounts at other providers for which it provides automatic configuration with ISPDB. It supports all the basic functions and GPG.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by programmarchy »

reportingsjr wrote: post #11

Etherpad - http://etherpad.org I always wanted to have the habit of taking lots of notes, but I didn't really like having to carry around a physical notebook. I set up etherpad and now I constantly use it to take notes. It has saved me so many times!

Looks like a great alternative to Hackpad which was recently shut down. Thanks for the link.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by nilved »

tchaffee wrote: post #5

I wish I had a success story to tell, but I've increasingly moved away from self-hosting. Whenever something breaks I have to pull myself away from the programming I'm enjoying and go fix it. And if something breaks when I've already had a long day working under a tight deadline for a client, it feels like a disaster.

That's precisely why I self-host. You can fix it yourself. Most people self-hosting GitLab will have a better uptime than GitHub.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by cormacrelf »

nilved wrote: post #25
tchaffee wrote: post #5

I wish I had a success story to tell, but I've increasingly moved away from self-hosting. Whenever something breaks I have to pull myself away from the programming I'm enjoying and go fix it. And if something breaks when I've already had a long day working under a tight deadline for a client, it feels like a disaster.

That's precisely why I self-host. You can fix it yourself. Most people self-hosting GitLab will have a better uptime than GitHub.

Sometimes you need the ability to offload blame more than the statistics that you had one more Nine of uptime.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by tiangolo »

Everything with Docker: https://www.docker.com/

Rancher (to control Docker stacks, set up HTTPS with Let's encrypt, etc): http://rancher.com/

GitLab (git repositories): https://about.gitlab.com/

Rocket.Chat (internal chat): https://rocket.chat/

Sentry (production code error handling): https://sentry.io/welcome/

Metabase (DB analytics and graphs): http://www.metabase.com/ Mailu (email server): https://github.com/Mailu/Mailu

Mailtrain (email marketing, using Mailgun or SparkPost): https://mailtrain.org/

KeeWeb (password storage and handling, kind of "self hosted", offline app): https://keeweb.info/

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by CJefferson »

nilved wrote: post #25
tchaffee wrote: post #5

I wish I had a success story to tell, but I've increasingly moved away from self-hosting. Whenever something breaks I have to pull myself away from the programming I'm enjoying and go fix it. And if something breaks when I've already had a long day working under a tight deadline for a client, it feels like a disaster.

That's precisely why I self-host. You can fix it yourself. Most people self-hosting GitLab will have a better uptime than GitHub.

I really want you to produce evidence for that. Everyone I know who selfhosts gitlab has much lower uptime than github.
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