Levelrail runs all five on one server with HTTPS, backups and rollback. It is open source (Apache 2.0): star it on GitHub or install it in one command .

Most "best self hosted apps" lists are a wall of 80 logos. This one has five, picked because each replaces a hosted tool people pay for every month, and each one is small enough to run on a single cheap server.

Every app below is a one-click template in Levelrail, a self-hosted platform that deploys apps to your own Linux server from a git push or a template. Each section ends with the install command.

Run them on one server, not five

The hard part of self-hosting is not the first install. The fifth is harder, when you have five apps, five upgrade schedules and no idea which volume holds what.

Levelrail gives you one place for that: HTTPS on your own domains, logs per app, deploy history with rollback, and backups of app volumes to an S3-compatible bucket.…