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The open source we run on

HostingSwift is built on open source, and our self-hosting guides document open-source software you can run yourself. This is the honest directory: every project with a link to its official website and its source code, and the licence it ships under.

269 open-source projects and 4 clearly-labelled proprietary products, across 7 categories. Read why we credit upstream.

Platform & infrastructure

What our own hosting runs on.

Certbot (Let's Encrypt)

Apache-2.0

Self-hosting apps we document

The software customers run most, with full setup guides.

WordPress

GPL-2.0+

Development happens on WordPress Trac; the GitHub repos are official mirrors.

Plex Media Server

proprietary

Plex Media Server is closed-source proprietary software; only some clients are open.

Emby

proprietary

Emby Server is closed-source; earlier versions were open under GPL.

Mattermost

MIT / AGPL (Team Edition)

GitLab

MIT (CE)

gitlab-foss is the Community Edition source; gitlab-org/gitlab is the full EE+CE monorepo.

n8n

Sustainable Use License

Security, identity & access

Keeping systems and people authenticated and defended.

Business, analytics & productivity

Running the business side on software you own.

Media, reading & home

Everything else worth self-hosting.

OpenDKIM

BSD-3-Clause

The project website is http-only; the maintained source and documentation live on GitHub.

More projects

Stoat (formerly Revolt)

AGPL-3.0

Revolt rebranded to Stoat.

Continuwuity (Conduit fork)

Apache-2.0

Continuwuity is the maintained successor to conduwuit; the original Conduit is at gitlab.com/famedly/conduit.

Drone CI

Apache-2.0

Drone was merged into the Harness/Gitness lineage.

UniFi Network Server

proprietary

The UniFi controller is proprietary Ubiquiti software.

Klaro (cookie consent)

BSD-3-Clause

Butt (broadcast using this tool)

GPL-2.0

Freeware; source is not published on a public repository.

UniFi Network Server

proprietary

The UniFi controller is proprietary Ubiquiti software.

Klaro (cookie consent)

BSD-3-Clause