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Cloud Hosting
Application hosting, PaaS, cloud deployment, and edge platforms.
Best Cloud Hosting tools by public signals
These picks are computed from scored public evidence. Use the openness column in the ranking to separate OSI-approved, source-available, open-core, proprietary, and unverified-license tools.
Use Case Rankings
Ordered by ToolVitals score, health, shipping, confidence, and then adoption as a tie-breaker.
| # | Tool | Health | Shipping | Openness | Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Nextcloud โ๏ธ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data | 100 | 100 | OSI-approved OSS | 35.8k | 100 | Active |
| 02 | Storj Distributed cloud storage platform. | 96 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 3.3k | 98 | Active |
| 03 | Floci Light, fluffy, and always free - AWS Local Emulator | 95 | 100 | OSI-approved OSS | 14k | 98 | Active |
| 04 | Puter Open-source, self-hostable internet computer platform. | 95 | 93 | OSI-approved OSS | 42.2k | 96 | Active |
| 05 | Olares Olares: An Open-Source Personal Cloud to Reclaim Your Data | 91 | 100 | OSI-approved OSS | 4.7k | 96 | Active |
| 06 | OpenCloud ๐ค๏ธ OpenCloud is the open source platform for file management, sharing and collaboration. Simple and sovereign. | 90 | 100 | OSI-approved OSS | 5.6k | 96 | Active |
| 07 | Dokploy Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku. | 93 | 94 | License unknown | 34.8k | 95 | Active |
| 08 | Dokku A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications | 90 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 31.9k | 95 | Active |
| 09 | Frappe Cloud Full service cloud hosting for the Frappe stack - powers Frappe Cloud | 88 | 100 | OSI-approved OSS | 523 | 95 | Active |
| 10 | Coolify An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers. | 91 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 56.9k | 94 | Active |
| 11 | Namespace Open-source Kubernetes application platform that powers Namespace's developer-optimized compute platform. | 93 | 87 | OSI-approved OSS | 155 | 93 | Active |
| 12 | Otomi Self-hosted PaaS for Kubernetes | 87 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.3k | 93 | Active |
| 13 | PicPeak ๐ Self-hosted photo sharing platform for photographers & events. Open-source alternative to PicDrop/Scrapbook with time-limited galleries, password protection, custom branding & no monthly fees. Built with React + Node.js ๐ธ | 89 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 232 | 92 | Active |
| 14 | Slink Self-hosted image sharing service | 88 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.5k | 92 | Active |
| 15 | Uncloud A lightweight tool for deploying and managing containerised applications across a network of Docker hosts. Bridging the gap between Docker and Kubernetes โจ | 87 | 92 | OSI-approved OSS | 5.2k | 92 | Active |
| 16 | WolfStack Server management platform for the Wolf software suite | 86 | 93 | License unknown | 151 | 91 | Active |
| 17 | Convox Multicloud Platform as a Service | 81 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 175 | 90 | Active |
| 18 | Temps Self host your own Vercel | 81 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 474 | 90 | Active |
| 19 | Payara Open-source Jakarta EE and MicroProfile application server platform. | 87 | 87 | OSI-approved OSS | 914 | 89 | Active |
| 20 | Spinifex Open-source AWS-compatible platform for secure edge deployments. | 83 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 20 | 89 | Active |
| 21 | Ech0 Ech0 โ An open-source, self-hosted lightweight publishing platform for personal idea sharing. | 83 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 2k | 89 | Active |
| 22 | OpenRun Internal tools deployment made easy. Deploy web apps declaratively, on a single-node or on Kubernetes. | 80 | 93 | OSI-approved OSS | 853 | 89 | Active |
| 23 | OxiCloud โ๏ธ Ultra-fast, secure & lightweight self-hosted cloud storage โ your files, photos, calendars & contacts, all in one place. Built in Rust. | 85 | 87 | OSI-approved OSS | 3.2k | 87 | Active |
| 24 | Emberly Open-source platform for modern file storage, sharing, and identity verification. | 80 | 86 | OSI-approved OSS | 4 | 87 | Active |
| 25 | Rainbond A container platform that needs no Kubernetes learning, Build, deploy, assemble, and manage apps on Kubernetes, no K8s expertise needed, all in a graphical platform. | 85 | 80 | License unknown | 6.2k | 86 | Active |
| 26 | Reviactyl Reviactyl is a modern and open-source game server management panel built using Laravel, React, FilamentPHP, Vite, and Go. It focuses on security and performance by running every game server inside isolated Docker containers while providing users with a clean and intuitive interface. | 78 | 90 | OSI-approved OSS | 134 | 86 | Active |
| 27 | dockpanel Modern server management panel built with Rust and React. Sites, databases, Docker apps, Git deploy, mail, DNS, monitoring, backups, and security โ all in one panel. | 80 | 87 | License unknown | 381 | 85 | Active |
| 28 | Juno Open-Source SDK for building apps | 79 | 76 | OSI-approved OSS | 411 | 84 | Active |
| 29 | Runtipi Runtipi is a homeserver for everyone! One command setup, one click installs for your favorites self-hosted apps. โจ | 84 | 66 | OSI-approved OSS | 9.5k | 82 | Active |
| 30 | Ubicloud Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM services. | 83 | 72 | OSI-approved OSS | 12.1k | 82 | Active |
| 31 | Cipi Easy Laravel Deployments | 81 | 76 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.1k | 82 | Active |
| 32 | Owncloud A personal cloud which runs on your own server | 81 | 69 | OSI-approved OSS | 8.8k | 82 | Active |
| 33 | Sealos Sealos is an AI-native Cloud Operating System built on Kubernetes that unifies the entire application lifecycle, from development in cloud IDEs to production deployment and management. It is perfect for building and scaling modern AI applications, managed databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB) and complex microservice architectures. | 84 | 63 | License unknown | 18k | 81 | Active |
| 34 | Hestia Control Panel Lightweight web hosting control panel. | 81 | 70 | OSI-approved OSS | 4.4k | 81 | Active |
| 35 | Qovery Kubernetes powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud | 80 | 69 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.4k | 81 | Active |
| 36 | gogs Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service | 77 | 69 | OSI-approved OSS | 47.6k | 79 | Active |
| 37 | YunoHost YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash. | 83 | 54 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.9k | 78 | Warning |
| 38 | Froxlor The server administration software for your needs - The official Froxlor development Git repository | 81 | 57 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.7k | 77 | Active |
| 39 | Game Server Open source game server with authentication, lobbies, scripting, and an admin portal. | 70 | 69 | OSI-approved OSS | 10 | 77 | Warning |
| 40 | Websoft9 Applications self-hosting and DevOps platform for running open source, web-based linux Panel of lite PaaS | 79 | 55 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.1k | 76 | Active |
| 41 | Nixopus Run production apps without thinking about infrastructure On your server or ours. Fully agentic. | 71 | 70 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.4k | 76 | Warning |
| 42 | ServerKit Modern server control panel for web apps, databases, and services on VPS or dedicated servers. | 70 | 69 | License unknown | 380 | 76 | Warning |
| 43 | GoDoxy High-performance reverse proxy and container orchestrator for self-hosters | 64 | 77 | OSI-approved OSS | 3.3k | 74 | Warning |
| 44 | Cloudreve ๐ฉ Self-hosted file management and sharing system, supports multiple storage providers | 80 | 46 | OSI-approved OSS | 28.1k | 73 | Warning |
| 45 | SkyPanelV2 Open-source VPS management and billing platform. | 68 | 69 | OSI-approved OSS | 2 | 73 | Warning |
| 46 | Filestash A file manager that let you manage your data anywhere it is located | 68 | 63 | OSI-approved OSS | 14.3k | 72 | Warning |
| 47 | EcliPanel Multi-tenant game server control panel with billing, DNS, AI endpoints, and remote node orchestration. | 65 | 66 | License unknown | 25 | 71 | Warning |
| 48 | OpenResty Manager Modern, secure, and elegant server control panel, alternative to OpenResty Edge and Nginx Proxy Manager. | 76 | 40 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.4k | 69 | Warning |
| 49 | CapRover Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids | 67 | 46 | OSI-approved OSS | 15.1k | 69 | Warning |
| 50 | PinMe Deploy Your Frontend in a Single Command. Claude Code Skills supported. | 61 | 58 | OSI-approved OSS | 3.7k | 69 | Warning |
| 51 | Openinary The self-hostable alternative to Cloudinary | 73 | 37 | OSI-approved OSS | 332 | 67 | Warning |
| 52 | KubeSphere The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management โ ๐ฅ โ๏ธ | 68 | 44 | OSI-approved OSS | 17k | 66 | Warning |
| 53 | Usulnet Open-source Docker infrastructure platform for containers, DNS, VPN, monitoring, backups, and reverse proxy management. | 64 | 46 | OSI-approved OSS | 115 | 66 | Warning |
| 54 | SellYourSaas Sell-Your-Saas is an Open Source solution to automate and sell any Web application as a SaaS service. Solution supports the deployment/undeployment of any application, customer dashboard, automatic invoicing and payment (credit card or sepa direct debit), management of a reseller network, security, backup, supervision and more... | 64 | 44 | OSI-approved OSS | 287 | 64 | Warning |
| 55 | OpenOva Enterprise Kubernetes platform with GitOps. | 46 | 66 | License unknown | 4 | 63 | Warning |
| 56 | QuickStack Free, open-source, self-hosted PaaS alternative to Vercel and Netlify. | 55 | 46 | OSI-approved OSS | 340 | 62 | Warning |
| 57 | Panelica ๐งพ Open-source WHMCS alternative โ self-hosted hosting billing & client portal. Laravel 13 + MySQL. Invoicing, domains, SSL, tickets, reseller, multi-language (30 locales), 15 themes. Free & MIT-licensed. | 57 | 37 | OSI-approved OSS | 19 | 61 | Warning |
| 58 | Seafile Beyond file syncing and sharing, a new way to organize your files with extensible file properties and flexible views | 74 | 17 | OSI-approved OSS | 14.8k | 60 | Warning |
| 59 | Erda An enterprise-grade Cloud-Native application platform for Kubernetes. | 67 | 27 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.7k | 60 | Warning |
| 60 | dyrector.io Simplify container delivery without vendor lock | 67 | 21 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.8k | 58 | Warning |
| 61 | OpenFaaS OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple | 56 | 24 | OSI-approved OSS | 26.2k | 57 | Warning |
| 62 | PteroCA Panel Free, open-source client management panel for Pterodactyl servers with integrated credit-based billing for automated server management. | 47 | 20 | OSI-approved OSS | 96 | 52 | Critical |
| 63 | Mist Lightweight self-hosted PaaS built with Go. | 59 | 7 | OSI-approved OSS | 61 | 51 | Warning |
| 64 | FastCP Fast and secure control panel for running multiple PHP websites on Ubuntu. | 47 | 20 | OSI-approved OSS | 58 | 50 | Critical |
| 65 | Gitflare Gitflare is a fully open-source serverless git hosting platform. No VMs, No Containers, Just Durable Objects. | 56 | 7 | OSI-approved OSS | 214 | 49 | Warning |
| 66 | Kubero A free and self-hosted PaaS alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Coolify / Vercel / Dokku / Portainer running on Kubernetes | 46 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 4.3k | 43 | Critical |
| 67 | Cloudness Self-hostable application platform for building and operating applications on Kubernetes. | 37 | 4 | OSI-approved OSS | 94 | 38 | Critical |
| 68 | Stormkit Stormkit is a self-hostable, highly performant and scalable PaaS for modern web applications. | 33 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 173 | 38 | Critical |
| 69 | Shuttle Build & ship backends without writing any infrastructure files. | 32 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 6.9k | 38 | Critical |
| 70 | WPCloudDeploy WPCloudDeploy is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily deploy and manage your own dedicated high-performance WordPress servers and sites at any cloud server provider. | 33 | 0 | License unknown | 100 | 36 | Critical |
| 71 | Genezio Genezio is an source-visible TypeScript tool tracked for cloud hosting signals, maintenance activity, and public release evidence. | 28 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 488 | 34 | Critical |
| 72 | Space Cloud Serverless cloud deployment platform | 31 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 4k | 33 | Critical |
| 73 | Litescreen Open-source digital signage platform. | 26 | 0 | License unknown | 22 | 29 | Critical |
| 74 | Navarcos Opinionated Kubernetes CaaS/PaaS manager built from open source software. | 23 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 8 | 27 | Critical |
Evidence Watch
Tracked tools with useful public signals but no verdict score yet.
Hovod
Open-source self-hosted video platform.
62 confidenceKubeNova
Open-source Kubernetes multi-cluster management platform with monitoring, alerting, microservice governance, and audit tools.
57 confidencePorter
Kubernetes powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud
64 confidenceSidekick
Bare metal to production ready in mins; your own fly server on your VPS.
66 confidence