Home servers & security – 14 subcategories
Security scanning
Find and track security weaknesses
3 alternativesReplaces Plextrac, Vulcan, Tenable Nessus, Prisma Cloud
VPN & private networks
Connect devices over a private network
4 alternatives · 3 fullReplaces OpenVPN Access Server, Tailscale, AWS VPC
Managing containers at home
Starting, updating and backing up the apps on a home server
4 alternativesReplaces Portainer Business
Reaching home apps from outside
Getting to home-server apps without opening router ports
5 alternatives · 3 fullReplaces ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale Funnel
Virtual machines
Running other operating systems inside your computer or server
4 alternatives · 2 fullReplaces VMware Workstation / vSphere, Parallels Desktop
Reverse proxies and HTTPS
Putting home-server apps behind one address with HTTPS certificates
5 alternatives · 5 fullReplaces Cloudflare
Running your own email server
Hosting email for your own domain
3 alternatives · 3 fullReplaces Google Workspace Gmail, Microsoft 365 Exchange, Fastmail
Uptime checks and status pages
Getting alerted when a site or service goes down
4 alternatives · 4 fullReplaces UptimeRobot, Pingdom, Atlassian Statuspage
Server control panels
Managing a web server, sites and email from a web panel
3 alternatives · 2 fullReplaces cPanel, Plesk, RunCloud
Home server dashboards
A start page with links and status for all your home apps
5 alternatives · 4 full
Dynamic DNS and DNS servers
Keeping a domain pointed at a changing home address, or running your own DNS
4 alternatives · 1 fullReplaces No-IP, Dyn, Dynu
Intrusion detection and security monitoring
Spotting attacks and suspicious activity on servers and computers
3 alternatives · 1 fullReplaces Splunk, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne
Security testing and password recovery
Testing your own systems the way an attacker would
5 alternativesReplaces Burp Suite Pro, Metasploit Pro, Passware
Network scanners and diagnostics
Seeing what's on your network and why it's slow
4 alternativesReplaces Fing, PRTG, SolarWinds