Self-Hosted
21 articles in this category.
Self-Hosted Slack Alternatives, and the One Part You Cannot Self-Host
Mattermost, Rocket.Chat and Zulip compared on the two things that decide a migration: which one is actually open source across the whole repository, and why mobile push notifications still route through the vendor.
Self-Hosting a Password Manager: What You Are Actually Taking On
Self-hosting a password manager changes less about security than people assume, and more about backups than they expect. The options, the licence detail nobody mentions, and the failure mode that should decide it for you.
Mintlify Alternatives: What You Are Actually Choosing Between
Every Mintlify alternatives list is written by someone selling a docs product. We pay for Mintlify and wrote the exporter, so here is the comparison without a horse in the race - including the one dimension nobody checks.
How to Self-Host Mintlify Docs as a Static Site
Mintlify offers self-hosting on Enterprise. Everyone else can export the rendered docs to a static bundle and host them anywhere - here is the open-source tool we built for it, and the honest list of what it does not cover.
Notion Alternatives You Can Actually Host Yourself
Most self-hosted Notion alternatives replace the documents and quietly drop the databases. Which two do both, what Outline's Business Source License actually restricts, and the honest answer about what you lose.
Retool Alternatives You Can Actually Host Yourself
Appsmith, ToolJet and Budibase compared on what decides whether self-hosting works - the shape of the deployment and where each one keeps its data, not the widget list.
Airtable Alternatives You Can Actually Host Yourself
NocoDB, Teable, Baserow and Grist, checked against the licence each one actually ships today - including the January 2026 change that moved NocoDB off AGPL and off the OSI list entirely.
DocuSign Alternatives You Can Actually Host Yourself
Three open-source e-signature platforms that run on your own infrastructure - Documenso, DocuSeal and OpenSign - what each is good at, what they cost to run, and the part of DocuSign that self-hosting does not replace.
Immich on Docker Compose: The Requirements Nobody Mentions
Immich needs 6 GB of RAM minimum, its database is not stock Postgres, and putting that database on your NAS is the one mistake the docs explicitly warn against. A compose file and the constraints behind it.