Open Source

A collection of 44 posts

Kimai

Kimai vs Toggl: Self-Hosted Time Tracking for Small Teams

Toggl Track is everywhere because the UX is genuinely good. Open the app, hit a button, time tracked. But once your team grows past five people, the price stops being a rounding error. Nine euros per user per month for the cheapest paid plan, and the bill grows linearly with

Self-Hosting

Discourse vs Flarum vs NodeBB: Which Self-Hosted Forum Platform in 2026?

Picking a forum platform in 2026 is annoying. Reddit is a private club. Discord is for vibes, not searchable threads. And every SaaS "community platform" either disappears at acquisition or jacks the price the day you depend on it. If you want to own your community, self-hosting is

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 21 Notable Releases This Week (May 24-31, 2026)

Quieter week than last one for splashy releases, but a critical Ghost CMS CVE means a lot of self-hosters need to drop everything and patch. We also got Prometheus 3.12, Uptime Kuma 2.4, a Directus 12 release candidate, fresh stable lines from Authentik, N8N, and Mattermost, and routine

Self-Hosting

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 22, 2026. Gitea CVE Hits 30K Servers, Percona Turns 20, Sway Adds HDR

Another week, another pile of news for anyone running their own infrastructure. This one was loaded. A four-year-old Gitea flaw left tens of thousands of container registries reading like an open book. Percona threw itself a 20th birthday party and announced a new MySQL foundation in the same breath. Sway

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 23 Notable Releases This Week (May 17-24, 2026)

Another busy week across the catalog. Mastodon shipped coordinated security backports across three major versions, Appsmith hit v2.0, and the database side stayed loud with ClickHouse pushing both stable and LTS updates. Here's the full rundown of what landed between May 17 and May 24, 2026. 🚨 Security

Comparison

Apache Superset vs Metabase vs Redash: Which Open-Source BI Tool to Self-Host in 2026?

If you're picking an open-source BI tool in 2026, the shortlist is short: Apache Superset, Metabase, and Redash. Same SQL backend, same CSV upload, same "make a chart, share a dashboard" promise. The differences live in who owns the project, who the tool is actually built

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 8 Notable Releases This Week (April 26 - May 3, 2026)

A busy week across the catalog. Forgejo shipped patches across three release lines, Portainer landed a major STS with GitOps for Helm, Ollama wired Claude Desktop into its launch flow, and Nextcloud previewed version 34 alongside two stable maintenance drops. Eight notable updates below, with a security note up top.

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 18, 2026. Mistral 3.5 Lands, Hashimoto Quits GitHub, cPanel CVSS 10

If you ran a self-hosted stack this week, you probably felt the ground move. Mistral dropped a 128B model that fits on four GPUs, Mitchell Hashimoto walked Ghostty off GitHub, and a cPanel zero-day got everyone scrambling before the weekend. Plus a new self-hosting box, a Home Assistant beta, Proxmox

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 6 Notable Releases This Week (April 19-26, 2026)

Another week, another wave of open-source releases. The headline this week is a security patch from Keycloak fixing ten CVEs in a single drop. Beyond that: Ollama wires up a new agent integration, Gitea ships back-to-back patch releases, and Discourse rolls out its April monthly. Here's what landed.

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 7 Notable Releases This Week (April 12-18, 2026)

This week brought a significant Keycloak release with zero-downtime updates going GA, Forgejo hitting its 100th release with LTS designation, and Jellyfin patching critical security issues. Here's everything that shipped across Elestio's catalog from April 12-18, 2026. Security Alerts Jellyfin 10.11.8 addresses security vulnerabilities

Chatwoot

How Chatwoot Can Replace Intercom for Your Support Team

If you've ever opened an Intercom invoice and felt your stomach drop, you're not alone. What starts as $29/seat/month quickly balloons once you add AI resolutions ($0.99 each), extra lite seats, and usage-based charges for SMS and phone. A 5-person team handling 1,

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 16, 2026. Mozilla Drops an AI Client, K8s 1.36 Preview, and Valkey Takes Over

You know that feeling when every tab in your browser has breaking news? That was this week for the self-hosted world. Mozilla dropped an AI client nobody saw coming, Kubernetes 1.36 is about to land with some genuinely useful changes, and the Valkey takeover is now officially complete across

Open Source

Euro-Office vs OnlyOffice: The Fork That's Splitting the Self-Hosted Office World

On March 27, 2026, a coalition of nine European companies walked into the Bundestag in Berlin and announced they were forking OnlyOffice. The project is called Euro-Office, and it's already the most controversial thing to happen in the self-hosted office world since LibreOffice split from OpenOffice. If you&

Comparison

Immich vs PhotoPrism: Which Self-Hosted Photo Manager for Your Family?

Google Photos gives you 15 GB for free, then starts charging. iCloud locks you into Apple's ecosystem. Amazon Photos requires a Prime subscription. At some point, you start wondering: can I just host my own? Yes. And the two best options are Immich and PhotoPrism. Both are open-source,

Comparison

Collabora Online vs OnlyOffice: Which Self-Hosted Office Suite After the Euro-Office Fork?

The self-hosted office suite space just got very interesting. A European consortium — Nextcloud, IONOS, and Proton among them — forked OnlyOffice into "Euro-Office," citing transparency concerns, closed development practices, and the project's Russian development team. OnlyOffice responded by suspending its 8-year partnership with Nextcloud and alleging license

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: Linux 7.0 Lands, WordPress 7.0 Delayed, and 3 Critical CVEs (April 5-12, 2026)

This was the week Linux jumped to version 7.0, WordPress 7.0 got delayed, and Jellyfin shipped a follow-up patch to fix regressions from last week's security release. A quieter week on the release front, but with some landmark moments. Here's what dropped. Security Alerts

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 15, 2026. Trivy Breach Hits the EU, Linux 7.0 Incoming, and Nix Gets a CVSS 9

This was the week the open-source supply chain broke in the most spectacular way possible. A poisoned version of Trivy — the vulnerability scanner half the industry trusts to keep them safe — gave attackers the keys to the European Commission's cloud. Meanwhile, Linux 7.0 is days away, OpenSSH

Integration

Airflow + Supabase: Build an Automated Data Pipeline on Elestio

If you've ever found yourself writing cron jobs to move data between services, you already know why you need a proper orchestrator. Apache Airflow is the industry standard for defining, scheduling, and monitoring data workflows — and Supabase gives you a production-ready PostgreSQL backend with a REST API, auth,

Comparison

Meilisearch vs Typesense: Which Search Engine for Your App?

If you're building search into your app and you've already ruled out Algolia's pricing, you've probably landed on the same two options everyone else has: Meilisearch and Typesense. Both are open-source, both offer instant search-as-you-type, and both promise to be the "

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 8 Notable Releases This Week (March 29 - April 5, 2026)

Another week, another round of releases across Elestio's 400+ open-source catalog. This week was dominated by security patches — two critical CVEs got fixed, Jellyfin shipped urgent security updates, and Ollama went on a patch marathon with three back-to-back releases. Let's get into it. Security Alerts Three

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 14, 2026. Gemma 4 Goes Apache 2.0, Ingress NGINX Is Dead, and Docker Gets Patched

Welcome back to Self-Hosted Weekly, your Friday roundup of everything that matters in open-source and self-hosting. This was a big one — Google dropped its most capable open models ever, Kubernetes lost its most popular ingress controller, and Docker shipped a critical security patch. Let's get into it. 1.

Comparison

RustFS vs SeaweedFS vs Garage: Which MinIO Alternative Should You Pick?

MinIO is effectively dead. In December 2025, the project entered "maintenance mode" — no new features, no PR reviews, not even guaranteed security patches. Before that, the web UI got stripped out and locked behind a $96K/year enterprise license. If you're running MinIO today, you'

Comparison

Outline vs BookStack: Which Self-Hosted Wiki for Your Team?

You need a wiki. Maybe your team's knowledge lives in a mess of Google Docs, Slack threads, and "ask Sarah, she knows." You've narrowed it down to two self-hosted options: Outline and BookStack. Both are open-source, both are excellent — but they solve the problem

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 28 New Releases This Week (March 22-29, 2026)

Every week, the open-source projects in the Elestio catalog ship new versions — security patches, performance boosts, entirely new features. Keeping up is a full-time job. So we're doing it for you. Here's everything that shipped across our 400+ managed services during the week of March 22-29,

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 12, 2026. GTC Goes Open Source, $12.5M for FOSS Security, and Docker v29 Breaks Everything

Welcome back to the Self-Hosted Weekly. This week: NVIDIA went all-in on open-source AI at GTC, the Linux Foundation secured $12.5 million for FOSS security, a new secrets scanner was born, and Docker v29 is quietly breaking things. Let's get into it. 1. NVIDIA Goes Open Source