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While privacy tools are fantastic, they sometimes miss the true root of the problem. In times of increasing censorship and data theft, owning your data is the best way to increase your privacy and security while dramatically reducing your ability to be censored. When done right, much of this can be done very cheaply. If you already own your hardware much of the software is free or very cheap. Instead of never ending subscriptions and increasing costs with big tech, simply remove them from your life by self hosting. Take back your digital sovereignty.">
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While privacy tools are fantastic, they sometimes miss the true root of the problem. In times of increasing censorship and data theft, owning your data is the best way to increase your privacy and security while dramatically reducing your ability to be censored. When done right, much of this can be done very cheaply. If you already own your hardware much of the software is free or very cheap. Instead of never ending subscriptions and increasing costs with big tech, simply remove them from your life by self hosting. Take back your digital sovereignty.">
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<li><a href="#link-tree-alternatives"><strong>Link Tree Alternatives</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#operating-systems">Operating Systems</a>
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<li><a href="#hypervisors-for-virtualization">HyperVisors for Virtualization</a></li>
<li><a href="#operating-systems-1">Operating Systems</a></li>
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<p><em>“If something is free, youre not the customer; youre the product.”</em> ― Bruce Schneier</p>
<p>While privacy tools are fantastic, they sometimes miss the true root of the problem. In times of increasing censorship and data theft, owning your data is the best way to increase your privacy and security while dramatically reducing your ability to be censored. When done right, much of this can be done very cheaply. If you already own your hardware much of the software is free or very cheap. Instead of never ending subscriptions and increasing costs with big tech, simply remove them from your life by self hosting. Take back your digital sovereignty.</p>
<h2 id="backup-applications">
<strong>Backup Applications</strong>
<a class="anchor" href="#backup-applications">#</a>
</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://apps.gnome.org/PikaBackup/"><strong>Pika Backup</strong></a> - Pika Backup is designed to save your personal data and does not support complete system recovery. Locally and remote encrypted backups.Open Source.</p>
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<p><a href="https://perkeep.org/"><strong>Perkeep</strong></a> - Perkeep is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem. Open Source.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-backup-server/overview"><strong>Proxmox Backup Server</strong></a> - Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise backup solution, for backing up and restoring VMs, containers, and physical hosts. By supporting incremental, fully deduplicated backups, Proxmox Backup Server significantly reduces network load and saves valuable storage space. With strong encryption and methods of ensuring data integrity, you can feel safe when backing up data, even to targets which are not fully trusted.</p>
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<h2 id="camera-systems">
<strong>Camera Systems</strong>
<a class="anchor" href="#camera-systems">#</a>
</h2>
<h2 id="camera-systems"><strong>Camera Systems</strong><a class="anchor" href="#camera-systems">#</a></h2>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://www.ezvidoo.com"><strong>Ezvidoo</strong></a> - EZVidoo is a free CCTV surveillance software for Windows, Linux, and Raspberry Pi. It supports IP Cameras by default, local USB cams, and Camera Audios.EZVidoo also supports numerous sensor types as motion, audio, object, face, and person sensors. By default, it offers a recording support on 24/7 basic, and features, alerts, notifications and mobile access. Not open source.</p>
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Cloud Document Services
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</h2>
<h2 id="cloud-document-services">Cloud Document Services<a class="anchor" href="#cloud-document-services">#</a></h2>
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<p><a href="https://cryptpad.fr/"><strong>Cryptpad</strong></a> - End-to-end encrypted and open-source collaboration suite, that can be used in the cloud or self-hosted. Google docs alternative.</p>
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Cloud Hosting
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<h3 id="open-source-as-a-service">
Open Source as a Service
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<h2 id="cloud-hosting">Cloud Hosting<a class="anchor" href="#cloud-hosting">#</a></h2>
<h3 id="open-source-as-a-service">Open Source as a Service<a class="anchor" href="#open-source-as-a-service">#</a></h3>
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<p><a href="https://crypt.ee/"><strong>Cryptee</strong></a> - Encrypted cloud storage of photos and videos. Solo use only, can&rsquo;t share docs.</p>
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<h2 id="link-tree-alternatives">
<strong>Link Tree Alternatives</strong>
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</h2>
<h2 id="link-tree-alternatives"><strong>Link Tree Alternatives</strong><a class="anchor" href="#link-tree-alternatives">#</a></h2>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://allmylinks.com/"><strong>AllMyLinks</strong></a> - Link tree alternative in the event of censorship.All your weblinks in one simple place.</p>
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Operating Systems
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<h2 id="operating-systems">Operating Systems<a class="anchor" href="#operating-systems">#</a></h2>
<p>While more well-known OSes like Windows server or Ubuntu server are great, there are other lesser-known OSes purpose-built to help people self-host, by pre-packaging applications in nice ready-made GUI. This can be especially useful for less technical users.</p>
<h3 id="hypervisors-for-virtualization">
HyperVisors for Virtualization
<a class="anchor" href="#hypervisors-for-virtualization">#</a>
</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.proxmox.com/en/"><strong>ProxMox</strong></a> - Proxmox is the primary open source solution for virtual machine hosting. Like VmWare or Hyper V except Proxmox is completely open source and free. It offers you the ability to run multiple virtual servers on a single physical server, easily allowing you to run several different software Operating systems for zero cost. Comes with snapshots, backups, server monitoring, native containerization and much more. Find a list of Proxmox based scripts <a href="https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/"><strong>here</strong></a> these scripts allow for single lines of code for setting up hundreds of apps. One of the absolute best ways to get into self hosting.</li>
<li><a href="https://xcp-ng.org/"><strong>XCP-NG</strong></a> - A solid alternative to Proxmox. the user-friendly, high-performance virtualization solution, developed collaboratively for unrestricted features and open-source accessibility with Turnkey Server Virtualization.</li>
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<h3 id="operating-systems-1">
Operating Systems
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<p><a href="https://ava.do/#about"><strong>Ava.do</strong></a> - Operating System for running your your own Nodes for BTC, ETH, XMR, NEAR, Avalanche and more.</p>
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<p><a href="https://pibox.io/"><strong>PiBox</strong></a> - Currently has a small offering of Apps but is working on adding more. Notable Apps are Nextcloud, Jellyfin and Homeassistant.</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://www.proxmox.com/en/"><strong>ProxMox</strong></a> - Proxmox is the primary open source solution for virtual machine hosting. Like VmWare or Hyper V except Proxmox offers you the ability to run multiple virtual servers on a single physical server, easily allowing you to run several different software Operating systems for zero cost. Comes with snapshots, backups, server monitoring and much more. Find a list of Proxmox based scripts <a href="https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/"><strong>here</strong></a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ronindojo.io/"><strong>RoninDojo</strong></a> - A company supporting Bitcoin Privacy and full nodes. The Tanto is hardware device that supports the open source Ronin software stack which includes full node Bitcoin wallets, Mem pool, access to the Bisq exchange and 24/7 access to coin pool for coinjoining BTC mixing and privacy all over a TOR connection. Dojo also offers a full downloadable OS.</p>
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<p><a href="https://yunohost.org/#/"><strong>YunoHost</strong></a> - Free and Open Source with over 100 apps. Yuno host comes with Clearnet support with your own custom domains and offers you free pre-selected domains you can use. Yunohost has a nice troubleshooting tool that helps you find issues with port/firewall troubleshooting. Yunohost has a lot of features but can be a bit buggy at times.</p>
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Media Center OSes
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<h3 id="media-center-oses">Media Center OSes<a class="anchor" href="#media-center-oses">#</a></h3>
<p>If you are currently running a Roku, Amazon Firestick, or pretty much any other store-bought hardware device for media streaming, it&rsquo;s very likely that it sends out massive amounts of data back to different companies. This is terrible for privacy, self-sovereignty, security, and internet bandwidth. While it&rsquo;s difficult to purchase hardware that does not do this, you can set up your own version with some of the following user-friendly Operating systems.</p>
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Photo Storage
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<h2 id="photo-storage">Photo Storage<a class="anchor" href="#photo-storage">#</a></h2>
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<p><a href="https://ente.io/"><strong>Ente</strong></a> - Encrypted cloud photo storage.</p>
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Remote Control Software
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<h2 id="remote-control-software">Remote Control Software<a class="anchor" href="#remote-control-software">#</a></h2>
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<p><a href="https://www.aeroadmin.com/en/"><strong>AeroAdmin</strong></a> - Easy and free Remote access service for many OSs. Not Open source.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.meshcommander.com/meshcentral2"><strong>Mesh Commander</strong></a> - Free Open Source Teamviewer Alternative.</p>
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<p><a href="https://netbird.io/"><strong>NetBird</strong></a> - NetBird combines a WireGuard®-based overlay network with Zero Trust Network Access, providing a unified open source platform for reliable and secure connectivity. Requires authentication account with a big tech identity provider. Offers free self hosting options.</p>
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<p><a href="https://docs.pangolin.net/"><strong>Pangolin</strong></a> - Pangolin is an open-source and identity-aware tunneled reverse proxy server. Pangolins distributed architecture with nodes provide highly available ingress to ensure applications always remain accessible. Open Source.</p>
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<p><a href="https://rustdesk.com/"><strong>RustDesk</strong></a> - TeamViewer, AnyDesk, and Splashtop to RustDesk for a secure and reliable remote desktop experience with your own self-hosted servers. Open Source.</p>
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<p><a href="https://tailscale.com/"><strong>TailScale</strong></a> - Tailscale is an easy VPN that allows you to connect back into your network without excessive configuration or firewall rules. While Tailscale is not fully open source and requires an requires authentication account with a big tech identity provider. However there is a fully <a href="https://headscale.net/"><strong>self-hosted version</strong></a> you can run.</p>
<p><a href="https://tailscale.com/"><strong>TailScale</strong></a> - Tailscale is an easy VPN that allows you to connect back into your network without excessive configuration or firewall rules. While Tailscale is not fully open source and requires an account with the company, there is a fully <a href="https://headscale.net/"><strong>self-hosted version</strong></a> you can run.</p>
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<strong>Routers</strong>
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<h2 id="routers"><strong>Routers</strong><a class="anchor" href="#routers">#</a></h2>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://www.flashrouters.com/"><strong>Flash Routers</strong></a> - New and repurposed routers that are flashed with Open Source Software OSes. The company also provides subscription models for router level support. They also have a specific <a href="https://www.flashrouters.com/privacy-hero-vpn-router-by-flashrouters"><strong>Privacy Hero</strong></a> router, that prioritizes network-wide VPN usage.</p>
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SSH/RDP Applications
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<h2 id="sshrdp-applications">SSH/RDP Applications<a class="anchor" href="#sshrdp-applications">#</a></h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/muriloventuroso/easyssh"><strong>Easy SSH</strong></a> - Simple application that lets you save all of your SSH logins and passwords in one easy interface. This way you can login go from SSH terminal port easily and quickly without needing to type in your credentials. Linux Only.</p>
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<h2 id="website-tools">
Website Tools
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<h2 id="website-tools">Website Tools<a class="anchor" href="#website-tools">#</a></h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ackee.electerious.com/"><strong>Ackee</strong></a> - Self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy. Ackee runs on your own server, analyzes the traffic of your websites, and provides useful statistics in a minimal interface.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.immuniweb.com/ssl/"><strong>Immuneweb</strong></a> - Check the security of your own self-hosted webserver.</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://matomo.org/"><strong>Matomo</strong></a> - Privacy first Google analytics alternative.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://plausible.io/"><strong>Plausible</strong></a> - Simple and privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative - Extensive <a href="https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/privacy-preserving-stats/">Review</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/"><strong>SSLLABS</strong></a> - Check the security of your own self-hosted webserver.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/"><strong>SSLLABS</strong></a> - Check the security of your own self-hosted webserver. ^1^```</p>
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