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What Apps Should You Be Self-Hosting is 2026?

Dec 26, 2025

Not long ago, LowEndTalk member @vitobotta started a great thread listing what he self-hosted and invited others to share their lists. It reminded me of the venerable Awesome-Selfhosted list on GitHub, which has hundreds and hundreds of apps in dozens of categories to choose from. What are you hosting?

What Apps Should You Be Self-Hosting is 2026?

Build Your Own Status Page with Uptime Kuma on a $1 Per Month VPS

raindog308

Aug 21, 2025

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If you run websites, services, or APIs, having a public status page is essential. Customers and staff want to know if your services are up, and you need monitoring that can alert you quickly when something goes down. The good news is that you don’t need expensive commercial services like Statuspage or Pingdom. Or Uptime Robot - which is not only no longer free but is jacking up prices 425%. With a $1 VPS and an open-source tool called Uptime Kuma, you can have a professional-looking status page in minutes.

Build Your Own Status Page with Uptime Kuma on a $1 Per Month VPS

WARNING: PikaPods are Addictive!

raindog308

Aug 07, 2022

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I've been wanting to give PikaPods a spin ever since we interviewed their founder. The one-sentence summary of PikaPods is: packaged apps on individual containers and you pay by the app. I wanted to...