Postiz
Powering over $145K monthly recurring revenue as a one-person company and holding 34,000+ GitHub stars, Postiz has emerged as the most widely adopted open-source alternative to Buffer, Hootsuite, and Hypefury — combining social media scheduling with AI-driven content creation and agentic automation in a single self-hosted platform. The Next.js 14 frontend with React 18 and Tailwind CSS delivers a visual calendar and Canva-like design editor, while the NestJS backend orchestrates publishing across 30+ social networks including X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest, Threads, Dribbble, Discord, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Facebook. Temporal handles durable workflow execution for reliable scheduled posting, retry logic, and background job processing. The built-in AI assistant generates post ideas, captions, hashtags, images, and short videos from natural language prompts — all within a single chat interface. An agentic layer exposes a CLI and MCP server that allow AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude, and ChatGPT to autonomously plan, draft, and schedule posts programmatically. Team collaboration includes role-based permissions, approval workflows, multi-workspace management for agencies, and commenting on scheduled content. A full REST API with a NodeJS SDK, N8N custom nodes, and Make.com integration enables automation pipelines. Analytics track engagement, reach, and growth across all connected accounts from a unified dashboard. The self-hosted stack deploys via Docker Compose with PostgreSQL, Redis, and Temporal pre-wired — no feature limitations compared to the cloud version. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
CommaFeed
CommaFeed delivers the Google Reader experience on your own infrastructure with modern performance characteristics. The Quarkus-based Java backend compiles to native code via GraalVM, achieving sub-second cold starts and 50MB memory footprint — a fraction of traditional JVM RSS readers. Four distinct layouts (title-only, expanded, magazine, and card) with light and dark themes adapt to any reading style, while comprehensive keyboard shortcuts cover navigation, marking, starring, and feed management without touching a mouse. The Fever-compatible API and newly added Google Reader API connect native iOS and Android apps (Reeder, Unread, FeedMe, ReadKit) directly to your instance. Per-feed push notifications through ntfy, Gotify, or Pushover alert you to new articles instantly. The visual query builder for automatic read-marking rules replaces raw expression syntax with an intuitive condition editor supporting title, content, author, and URL matching. OPML import and export enable seamless migration from any RSS service. Custom CSS and JavaScript injection let power users completely restyle the interface, while the browser extension adds one-click subscription from any website. Docker images for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 with H2 embedded database require zero configuration to start. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.
Wordpress
Roughly 43% of all websites and over 60% of the CMS market run on WordPress - the GPL-licensed platform that scales from a personal blog to publishing operations and WooCommerce stores. The Gutenberg block editor composes pages from reusable blocks, and full site editing extends block control to headers, footers, and templates; tens of thousands of plugins and themes cover essentially every capability a site might need, from SEO and caching to membership and e-commerce. WordPress 7.0 "Armstrong" marks the platform's biggest structural update since Gutenberg itself: a React-based DataViews admin replaces the legacy list tables with instant filtering, a provider-agnostic AI Client API ships with connectors for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, media processing moves into the browser via WebAssembly, and a universal Font Library manages typography across block, hybrid, and classic themes with local hosting for GDPR compliance. New Breadcrumbs, Icons, and lightbox Gallery blocks reduce plugin dependence, and server-side PHP block registration simplifies development. The REST API and WP-CLI make it automatable end to end. Self-hosting is what WordPress was designed for: your content, database, plugin choices, and upgrade schedule stay entirely under your control, free of wordpress.com plan limits.
Ghost
Get ready to transform your audience into a thriving empire with Ghost, the ultimate toolkit for the modern creator on a mission to monetize their mojo. Picture this: a sleek website that screams 'you', bursting with content that captivates, newsletters that fly straight into inboxes, and a subscription service that turns followers into financiers. Wave goodbye to bland and hello to a smorgasbord of stunning, free themes that you can finesse to fit your unique flair. But wait, there's more! Ghost's editor is like the Swiss Army knife for content connoisseurs—slick, sophisticated, and oh-so-simple to use. Unleash your creativity with multimedia storytelling that includes everything but the kitchen sink—galleries, chucklesome gifs, videos, podcasts, you name it. And when it's time to hit 'send', those built-in newsletters make sure your words woo your audience without breaking a sweat. Want to play the mysterious type? Ghost's got you covered with native signup forms that turn casual lurkers into committed members. And because we all love a good sneak peek, Ghost dishes out the deets with analytics that spill the tea on who's loving your work the most. Plus, with tantalizing offers and promotions, you'll have new subscribers flocking like seagulls at a beach picnic. All this, hosted on RepoCloud, where the cost is as tiny as your chances of being bored. So, what are you waiting for? Let's Ghost!
Mixpost
Mixpost puts Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Google Business under a single scheduling dashboard — plan content visually on a drag-and-drop calendar, queue posts for optimal engagement windows, and track audience growth per platform without juggling twelve separate apps or paying per-seat SaaS fees. Built on Laravel with a Vue.js 3 and Inertia.js frontend styled with Tailwind CSS, the Lite edition provides unified content management where each post supports platform-specific customization with individual captions, media attachments, hashtag groups, and first-comment scheduling. Posting queues automate publishing at configurable time slots throughout the day. The media library provides a centralized asset manager with drag-and-drop uploads, stock photo integration via Unsplash, and Tenor GIF search. AI-powered content assistance generates and optimizes post copy. Per-platform analytics dashboards display audience growth, engagement metrics, reach, and impressions with exportable reports. Team workspaces support role-based permissions for collaborative content management across departments. External integrations connect through the REST API, webhooks, n8n, Zapier, and RSS feeds, plus an MCP server for AI assistant publishing. Deploy via Docker Compose with MySQL and Redis. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Halo
Halo is a modern CMS that handles blogs, knowledge bases, corporate sites, and full e-commerce storefronts from a single installation, distinguished by a polyglot plugin architecture that runs both Java and JavaScript extensions on a GraalVM runtime. Built on Spring Boot 3 with a Vue.js admin console, the platform delivers a clean content management experience with Markdown and rich-text editing, live preview, scheduled publishing, draft management, media uploads, and granular multi-user role-based access controls. Plugins can be enabled or disabled at runtime without restarting the server, and the official marketplace offers over 100 free themes plus a growing library of extensions covering SEO optimization, search integration, paid content access, AI writing assistance, and Q&A chatbots. Storage backends are configurable through plugins, supporting local disk, S3-compatible object storage, and other providers. The fully documented RESTful API enables headless CMS usage for decoupled frontend architectures. Database support includes embedded H2 for quick starts, with production deployments on PostgreSQL or MySQL. Nearly 40,000 GitHub stars and over 2.5 million Docker pulls reflect the project's maturity and active development pace. A single Docker command gets a functional instance running on port 8090. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.
MediaWiki
With MediaWiki, the wiki software behind Wikipedia, a team writes one shared knowledge base in plain wikitext or a visual editor while every revision stays saved for comparison and rollback. Page history names the author and edit summary of each change, and a side-by-side diff shows exactly what moved before anyone reverts. Talk pages hold threaded discussions with inline replies, notifications announce mentions and thanks, and watchlists flag the pages you follow. Namespaces, categories, redirects, and reusable templates give a large wiki its structure, and Lua modules written for Scribunto power infoboxes. Uploaded images get automatic thumbnails and a full-screen lightbox. Bundled extensions add PDF handling and math rendering for documentation that needs more than text. Group-based permissions decide who may read, edit, protect, or delete. A wiki can stay open to everyone or sit behind a login. AbuseFilter, CAPTCHAs, blocklists, and two-factor sign-in help fend off spam and account takeovers. Vector 2022 brings a sticky table of contents and an optional dark mode. The interface is localized in over 350 languages. Bots and scripts log in, read, search, and edit with the Action API. Use it for company handbooks, engineering runbooks, course notes, fandom encyclopedias, and public reference sites. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0-or-later licensed.
Umbraco CMS
If editors should publish without waiting on developers, and developers should keep full control of the design, Umbraco is the free content management system built around that split. A page begins in the Block Grid editor, where reusable blocks nest inside Areas and each block is sized on a column and row grid. Live preview shows the result before anything goes out. Publish and unpublish times can be scheduled in the editor's own time zone, and any page can roll back to an earlier version from its Info tab. One content node can exist in several languages, and split view puts two of them side by side. The Media section holds images, video, and other files. Visitors can register and log in as members, new members can be placed in member groups, and pages can be hidden from anyone not logged in. On the code side, templates and partial views shape the front end, while the opt-in Content Delivery API returns content items as JSON for mobile apps and any other front end. Webhooks notify outside services when content is published, unpublished, or deleted. Custom dashboards and property editors extend the backoffice, and the Marketplace lists open-source and commercial packages for the rest. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Seanime
Seanime turns your server into a dedicated anime and manga command center, combining local library management, torrent streaming, an integrated manga reader, and AniList progress tracking in a single self-hosted web application. Point it at your media folders and the smart scanner automatically identifies and matches your anime files to AniList entries without requiring strict naming conventions or folder hierarchies. Stream episodes directly from torrents through qBittorrent, Transmission, Torbox, Real-Debrid, AllDebrid, or Premiumize; the built-in player starts playback before the download finishes, so there is no waiting for full transfers. The manga reader pulls chapters from community extension sources and tracks your reading progress across series automatically. An in-app extension marketplace lets you install third-party providers for streaming, manga, and torrent sources, all written in JavaScript and managed through a visual interface. Seanime Tenji, the companion mobile app for iOS and Android, connects to your server for on-the-go library browsing, content streaming, and offline downloads. Auto-download rules grab new episodes of airing series the moment torrents appear. The transcoding engine handles on-the-fly conversion for browser playback on any device, while direct play passes through compatible formats at full quality. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.
Artalk
Artalk embeds a full commenting system into any webpage with three lines of JavaScript, packing multi-site management, social login, spam filtering, and Markdown rendering into a client that weighs roughly 40KB. One server instance manages comments for unlimited websites with complete data isolation between sites, eliminating the need for separate deployments per project. The framework-agnostic Vanilla JS client renders a complete comment interface with Markdown support, LaTeX mathematical formula rendering, image uploads, emoji packs compatible with OwO format, and automatic dark mode detection. An integrated admin dashboard accessible through the comment box provides comment moderation queues, IP banning, comment pinning, page-level statistics, and content management without direct database access. Social login authenticates commenters through GitHub, Google, Twitter, Discord, and additional OAuth providers, while captcha protection spans four backends: image captcha, Cloudflare Turnstile, Google reCAPTCHA, and hCaptcha. Spam filtering layers include Akismet integration, keyword block lists, and cloud moderation services that catch unwanted content before publication. Email notifications support SMTP, Aliyun DM, and Sendmail transports with customizable templates, and multi-channel push notifications extend to Telegram, Bark, and other messaging platforms. The OpenAPI-documented HTTP API enables programmatic comment management. Database flexibility covers SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. A plugin marketplace offers community extensions for custom behavior. Continuously maintained for over 8 years. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Wiki.js
Team and product documentation on a fast Vue frontend with PostgreSQL storage: Wiki.js is a Node.js wiki engine. Its distinguishing trait is per-page editor choice: authors pick Markdown with live preview, a WYSIWYG visual builder for non-technical writers, or raw HTML, page by page. Native Git synchronization commits every page change to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, or any Git remote - bi-directionally, so edits made in the repository flow back into the wiki - giving documentation version-controlled backup for free. Authentication coverage is among the broadest of any self-hosted wiki: local accounts with self-registration, social login via Google, GitHub, Discord, and Slack, and enterprise SSO through LDAP/Active Directory, SAML, CAS, Auth0, Okta, Azure AD, Keycloak, and generic OAuth2/OIDC, with optional MFA. Built-in full-text search runs on PostgreSQL with zero setup, and external engines like Algolia or Solr can substitute. Page history with visual version comparison, granular group-based permissions per path, nested navigation menus, 50+ integration modules, and full localization round it out. AGPLv3-licensed with a 28k-star community.
Vvveb
Vvveb, an open-source CMS with a drag-and-drop page builder and a built-in store, runs a blog, a portfolio, and a webshop from one dashboard, with every page edited visually on a true WYSIWYG canvas. Reusable blocks, page revisions, a code editor, and an optional AI assistant plugin sit alongside media management, custom fields, custom posts, and custom products that shape content well beyond plain pages. The store handles one-page checkout, subscriptions, digital downloads, vouchers, coupons, product options, attributes, variants, reviews, and Q&A across multiple payment methods and currencies. Content can be published in several languages, the admin interface switches with language packs, many sites or subdomains share one installation, and action-level permissions are assigned to each user role. A bundled SEO plugin generates sitemaps, robots.txt, Open Graph tags, hreflang links, and schema markup, and hybrid headless mode serves the same content to any frontend through GraphQL and REST endpoints. A randomized admin login URL, two-factor authentication, brute-force defenses, and a built-in integrity check guard the dashboard, and manual or automatic backups plus import and export tools cover recovery and migration. Any HTML template converts into a theme in minutes, a demo importer loads sample content for a fast start, and plugins and themes install with one click from the admin dashboard. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
Oksskolten
Subscribe to a feed and Oksskolten fetches the complete text of every new article, cleans it, and files it as Markdown in a library you can read without leaving the app. About 500 cleanup patterns strip ads, navigation, and tracking, with no per-feed toggles or selectors to maintain. No feed on the site? Auto-discovery goes first, then RSS Bridge, then LLM-inferred CSS selectors, while FlareSolverr gets past bot protection. Every feed is checked on its own schedule, somewhere between every 15 minutes and every 4 hours. Inbox, Read Later, Liked, and Read views keep the queue tidy. Clip any URL as a standalone article. Likes and bookmarks feed an engagement score that shapes search ranking and recommendations. One click summarizes or translates an article through Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI, Ollama, or vLLM, with Google Translate and DeepL as translation engines. Ask the chat questions about your archive, or point Claude Code or Codex at the built-in MCP server to use the same tools. Search forgives typos and covers every stored article. Login works with a password, a passkey, or GitHub. Pick from four layouts and fourteen color themes, import custom themes as JSON, rebind keyboard shortcuts, and keep reading offline as a progressive web app. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
django CMS
Click the pencil on a live page, change a headline or drop in an image, and publish: that is django CMS, an open-source content management system built around editing in place. A structure board lists every plugin on a page as a draggable tree, so layouts get rearranged without touching code. Plugins cover rich text with tables and links, pictures from a media library with sizing, margin, and visibility settings, and nested containers, and rules limit where each plugin may appear. With versioning enabled, every edit is a draft that can be previewed, compared visually or in source against an earlier version, discarded, or published, and publishing can be reserved for editors. Each page carries a translation per language with its own title and slug, and a language menu adds translations or copies plugins from another language. The page tree manages navigation as a hierarchy with drag-and-drop ordering, per-language status dots, and a menu toggle per page. Page permissions can let a legal team edit one branch of the tree and nothing else, and one settings file can serve several domains by hostname. Apphooks mount whole applications, such as a news section, on a page that editors place in the tree, and reusable aliases keep footers and banners in one place. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. BSD-3-Clause licensed.
Smartstore
Smartstore is a self-hosted eCommerce platform that lets one install run several multilingual, multi-currency storefronts, with a drag-and-drop page builder and built-in AI writing tools. The catalog takes unlimited products and categories, with variants, bundles, grouped and downloadable products, tier pricing, and cross-selling, while faceted search keeps large assortments easy to filter. Shoppers get a responsive storefront with a streamlined checkout, reviews, wishlists, and wallet or gift-card payments; staff get order, shipment, and return handling plus a dashboard with sales statistics and bestseller lists. Marketing tools cover discounts, coupons, reward points, newsletters, affiliates, a blog, and forums, and the visual Rule Builder grants discounts, offers shipping and payment methods, and assigns customers to roles automatically. AI helpers draft product descriptions and meta tags with OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, or a self-hosted Ollama model, and image tools create or edit pictures. A Media Manager organizes images and files in folders with filters and metadata. Import and export profiles move catalogs in and out on a schedule, a REST API connects other systems, and tree-based permissions decide which staff roles may do what. The Docker image starts a browser installer that connects to MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
Wagtail
Backed by over 20,000 GitHub stars, 800 contributors, and organizations like Google, NASA, and the NHS, Wagtail is the Django-powered content management system that gives editors creative freedom through StreamField while keeping developers in full control of data structure and front-end rendering. StreamField lets editors compose pages from a custom library of content blocks — rich text, images, embedded videos, tables, code snippets, and developer-defined custom types — without compromising the underlying data model or breaking responsive layouts. The built-in JSON API supports headless deployments with versioned endpoints for pages, images, and documents, enabling decoupled front-ends in Next.js, Nuxt.js, or any framework that consumes REST. Editorial workflows provide configurable approval chains where content moves through draft, review, and publish states with commenting, task assignment, and email notifications built into the admin interface. Integrated search connects to Elasticsearch for full-text indexing with faceted filtering, or falls back to PostgreSQL and SQLite backends with fuzzy matching support added in v7.4. Multi-site management serves multiple domains from a single Wagtail installation with independent page trees, while the internationalization framework handles content translation with locale-aware URL routing. Image management includes focal point detection, responsive renditions, and automatic format conversion. The platform supports Django 5.2 and 6.0 with Python 3.10 through 3.14 and PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, or SQLite databases. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. BSD-3-Clause licensed.
TYPO3
TYPO3 lets an organization run any number of multilingual websites from one installation, with editors working in a page tree and administrators deciding who may touch what. Editing happens in a context panel that slides in beside the page layout, and a guided wizard creates new pages step by step. Translations can be copied or connected to their source with change tracking, and sites can mix languages, including right-to-left scripts. Workspaces keep edits away from the live site until they are previewed and approved, while access lists, page permissions, and mounts control which parts of the tree each backend user may change. Marketing teams get a QR code module and a short URL module with hit counters and expiry dates, and redirects are created automatically whenever a page slug changes. The Form Framework builds forms with multiple file uploads in one field, CKEditor 5 text editing, and email notifications customized in the backend. A dashboard shows widgets such as recent documents and backend logins, and a Bookmark Manager groups shortcuts into large page trees. The Camino starter theme gives integrators a ready-made frontend with several color schemes, and developers shape sites further with Fluid templates and TypoScript, plus extensions from extensions.typo3.org. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.
PandaWiki
In seven wizard steps, PandaWiki sets up a product docs, manual, FAQ, or blog site whose built-in AI answers visitors using only your own content. Those visitors can chat with an assistant that cites its sources and accepts image questions, or switch to a docs-only search that lists ranked pages with summaries. Publishing stays under control: each document has three switches, visible in navigation, reachable by URL, and answerable by AI, and nothing appears or gets learned until it is published. Authors write in a Markdown and HTML editor, or import from URLs, RSS and Atom feeds, sitemaps, offline .txt, .md, .xlsx, .docx, and .pdf files, Notion, Yuque, SiYuan, Wiki.js, Feishu, Confluence, and DingTalk. Pages export to Word, PDF, or Markdown. The wizard covers models, domain, HTTP or HTTPS ports, import, publishing, answer testing, and page decoration. One knowledge base can also feed a web widget and DingTalk, Feishu, WeCom, and Discord bots. Administrators get a dashboard of visits, questions, visitor regions, hot documents, and referring domains. Chat models come from Baizhi Cloud, DeepSeek, OpenAI, or Ollama, while vector and reranking models are built in. The open-source edition covers one wiki site, 300 documents, and one admin, and its console and documentation are in Chinese. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.