Sources

Where the facts come from.

A verdict is only as good as the facts under it. Every record says where it came from and when it was last checked.

Upstream datasets

awesome-selfhosted-data

Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0 · snapshot 04dfcde from 2026-09-04

Used for: licence, source repository, activity (stars, last update), platforms and tags of open-source tools. Attribution: this catalogue includes data from awesome-selfhosted-data, © its contributors, licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0. Our derived records are shared under the same licence where they include that data.

Curated by hand

Which needs exist, which tools serve them, who is behind each tool and where (country and parent company), where hosted versions keep data, what a small self-hosted deployment needs, and what a tool commonly replaces — these fields are ours. They were written from public sources (vendor websites, imprints, documentation) and are marked with a verification date. 7 vendors are marked with unknown jurisdiction because we could not verify it; they never turn green in a hosted mode.

Prices

Infrastructure estimates use Hetzner Cloud's public price list, captured from its API on 2026-09-04 (net, monthly). Service prices are list prices where public, otherwise marked "not estimated". They are planning figures, not quotes.

Directories we link to

european-alternatives.eu — European alternatives by category; we adopt its definition of "European" (EU, EEA, EFTA, UK).
switching.software — ethical alternatives, framed for non-technical users.
awesome-selfhosted.net — the human view of the upstream dataset.

Corrections

If a fact is wrong, open an issue with a source. Records are versioned files; a correction is a one-line change and a rebuild.

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