Filestash puts a Dropbox-style web interface in front of the SFTP servers, S3 buckets, SMB shares, and WebDAV storage you already run, so no file has to move. Administrators enable each connector, including FTP, NFS, Git, Dropbox, Google Drive, Storj, IPFS, and Backblaze B2, from one admin console. Colleagues browse, rename, move, and upload in a single folder view, with resumable uploads for big transfers. Thumbnails cover JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, HEIF, and RAW photos. Images open with an EXIF info panel, and PDFs, audio, video, and EPUB ebooks open right in the browser. A CodeMirror editor handles text and code, and HLS transcoding streams video on demand. Outside guests get a shared link instead of credentials, with an optional password, an expiry date, and read, write, or upload-only rights. Limit a link to one email address or a whole domain, or mount it as a network drive. A workflow engine chains emails and HTTP calls after file events, webhooks, or schedules. Flip one admin setting and Claude, ChatGPT, and Mistral Le Chat can use the connected storage as MCP tools. Downloadable file apps add Office documents, 3D models, and GIS maps. Runtime plugins are zip files dropped into the plugins folder. 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.

FileBrowser Quantum is an open-source, self-hosted web file manager that transforms any directory tree or mounted storage volume into a fast, searchable cloud drive accessible from any browser. You can mount multiple independent filesystem sources at once and apply custom include or exclude rules to keep sensitive system folders hidden from everyday browsing. A background indexing engine powers instant as-you-type search across millions of files, letting you filter results by file size, folder size, media type, or modification date in milliseconds. Rich media thumbnails render automatically for videos, office documents, audio album artwork, and interactive 3D models, while integrated OnlyOffice support lets you edit spreadsheets and word processing documents directly inside your browser tab. Built-in WebDAV server support allows desktop operating systems and mobile file apps to mount your remote directories as native network drives. Sharing files with external collaborators takes seconds through customizable public or private links with expiration timers, download limits, password protection, anonymous upload permissions, and custom branding themes. Administrators can authenticate users via OpenID Connect, LDAP, JSON Web Tokens, proxy headers, or local passwords with two-factor authentication, then enforce path-level read, write, and delete rules per user or group. Developers and automation engineers can generate long-lived API tokens and explore the interactive Swagger endpoint to script file transfers and directory provisioning. 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.

A pile of paper becomes a searchable digital archive under Paperless-ngx, the community-maintained document management system. The pipeline is what makes it work: drop a file into the consumption folder (or let it poll an email inbox), and a worker hashes it for duplicate detection, routes it by type, runs OCRmyPDF with Tesseract (100+ languages) on anything without a text layer, and produces an archivable PDF/A with invisible selectable text embedded - so Ctrl+F works on your scans. Then the smart part: a scikit-learn classifier (TF-IDF plus multi-label prediction) trained on your own tagged documents automatically assigns tags, correspondents, and document types to new arrivals, alongside rule-based exact, keyword, and regex matching for deterministic cases. Full-text search includes relevance ranking, match highlighting, autocomplete, and "more like this" similarity search. Apache Tika integration extends consumption to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and LibreOffice formats. The Django/Angular app adds custom fields, saved views on a customizable dashboard, bulk editing, workflow automation triggered on upload or matching, shareable public links with expiration, and a robust permissions system with per-document access control. Metadata lives in PostgreSQL with Redis-queued Celery workers processing documents in parallel. Your tax records, invoices, and contracts stay on your server - searchable in seconds, never in someone else's cloud.

Your files already live in five places; filex puts them in one tree and serves that tree back out through almost any protocol. Mount local disks, S3 buckets, SFTP servers, WebDAV shares, FTP sites, and SMB network drives side by side, then copy in one storage and paste into another without thinking about where anything physically sits. The same tree is reachable as S3, SFTP, FTPS, NFS, and WebDAV, so rclone, restic, the AWS CLI, WinSCP, or FileZilla all work against it with the same per-user and per-folder permissions as the web interface. Sharing leaves the server under your control: public links carry a PIN, an expiry, and a download limit, and file-request links let people upload into a folder without seeing its contents. Anything deleted stays recoverable inside a retention window, overwritten files keep version snapshots, and encrypted folders are sealed in the browser so the server never receives a key. People sign in with OIDC single sign-on, LDAP or Active Directory, or the host machine's own accounts, with roles, groups, and tenants plus folder-level exceptions. A desktop app keeps chosen folders in sync within about a second, the file manager embeds into other products as a web component, and an MCP server plus REST API let agents work the same tree. It runs from one static binary or container on port 5212. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

OpenList gathers every place your files live, local disks, S3 buckets, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, NAS shares, and forty-odd other services, into one browsable file list behind a single login. Mount each storage at its own path and the whole collection behaves like one tidy drive: documents open in the browser, whether PDF, Markdown, source code, or Office files, images get a gallery mode, and videos and audio play in place with subtitle and lyric support. Everyday file work happens in the same window: upload, delete, rename, move, and copy, including copying directly between two storages when you are migrating off a cloud plan. Offline download tasks let the server fetch links for you in the background, and multi-threaded acceleration squeezes speed out of sluggish single connections. Every folder can also be mounted as a real drive on your computer through the built-in WebDAV and FTP servers, with per-user permissions deciding who may read, upload, rename, or delete. Protected routes add passwords in front of sensitive shares, permalinks hand out direct download links, and granular user rules can hide files or open archive contents without extracting them. 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.

Point a browser at your server's folders and skip the FTP clients, the SSH tunnels, and the heavyweight cloud clones: Mikochi turns any directory on your machine into a clean web file browser you can open from anywhere. You browse nested folders in a fast list view, jump to files with fuzzy search, upload new material, create folders, rename items, and delete what is no longer needed. Whole directories come down as a single tar.gz archive, which makes backups and bulk transfers painless. Media files get a smarter treatment: Mikochi generates streaming links that open directly in VLC or mpv, so a film or album stored on the server plays on your screen without downloading gigabytes first. Access stays protected behind a username and password login with JWT sessions, and you can serve everything over TLS with your own certificates or disable authentication entirely on a trusted private network. Deployment takes one Docker command with a mounted data directory, and Kubernetes users get an official Helm chart. Homelab owners point it at a NAS share, developers drop it on a build box, and anyone tired of scp commands gets a permanent window into their files. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

DashBeam sends files and folders of any size straight from one device to another, end to end encrypted, with no cloud account, no size limits, and nothing parked on a third party server in between. Drop in a file and share it through a short code, a link, or a QR scan; whoever receives it needs no account and can collect it in a plain browser tab with nothing installed. On the same network, nearby machines appear on their own, so pairing two devices and sending between them takes a couple of clicks instead of a cable or a memory stick. Pair a device once and it stays reachable by its identity, so your machines can exchange files from anywhere without swapping fresh tickets every time. Interrupted transfers resume where they stopped, and hopping from Wi-Fi to cellular mid-send does not drop the connection. One share can fan out to several receivers at once, and devices you mark as trusted can accept files automatically, which suits pushing builds, media libraries, or backups around a small fleet. You can preview what is arriving before downloading it, and a local history records every completed transfer. The repository also ships Docker Compose stacks for your own relay and discovery server, so even the encrypted fallback path can run entirely on machines you own. 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.

To give Docker administrators and home lab operators a fast, modern workspace for server-side storage, NextExplorer delivers a browser-based file manager with instant ripgrep search, inline editing, and multi-volume navigation. Any directory mounted under your container volume root appears immediately in the sidebar with capacity usage indicators, favorite pins, and switchable grid, list, and column browsing layouts. You can preview images, stream videos and audio with FFmpeg-generated thumbnails, read PDFs, edit source code and configuration files in the syntax-highlighted editor, or collaborate on office documents through an integrated ONLYOFFICE Document Server. Deep content search powered by ripgrep scans filenames and file contents across terabytes of storage in seconds, while bundled 7-Zip support inspects and extracts password-protected ZIP, 7z, RAR, TAR, and ISO archives with built-in zip-bomb protection. Teams can share folders via read-only or read-write links, isolate personal user directories, enforce path-level read-only or hidden access rules, and authenticate through local accounts or OpenID Connect identity providers such as Authentik and Authelia. 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.

Somewhere in every organisation there is a folder called FINAL_v2 that nobody dares delete, and Drive from La Suite exists to end that. It gives teams a shared file space where uploads land in organised workspaces, versions stay findable through search, and every file or folder carries its own access list. You preview PDFs, images, audio, and video in the browser, and office documents open for editing through Collabora or OnlyOffice without downloading a thing. Sharing reaches outside the organisation too: invite external partners by link, even without an account, and revoke access the moment a project ends. Uploads pass malware scanning before they touch storage, a trash bin restores accidents, and quotas with usage metrics keep big archives honest. Administrators plug in their own OIDC identity provider, so logins follow the same single sign-on as the rest of the stack, while an embeddable file picker lets other internal apps reuse Drive as their document library. Because the data lives in your own S3-compatible storage, sovereignty requests stop being an argument with a vendor and become a setting. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

A personal cloud does not need the weight of a small enterprise suite, and bewCloud proves it by keeping files, photos, notes, contacts, and calendars in one compact service a single person can run for a whole household. The Files app stores uploads in a plain folder tree on disk, offers public sharing links, optional whole-folder downloads as zip archives, and a WebDAV endpoint that desktop tools can mount. Photos turns that same storage into a browsable gallery, while Notes keeps quick text within reach of every login. Contacts and Calendar speak CardDAV and CalDAV through a bundled Radicale server, so the calendar and address book on a phone or laptop stay in sync without another account anywhere. News collects feeds to read in the browser, and Expenses tracks spending in a small ledger beside everything else. The header shows only the apps you enable, in the order you choose, and companion desktop and mobile apps connect to the same server for people who prefer native sync. Accounts can be protected with multi-factor authentication using TOTP, passkeys, or email codes, and optional single sign-on lets a household sign in through an existing identity provider. 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.

Host your own email, files, calendars, and passwords on a single server with YunoHost, a server operating system that puts every app behind one web admin and one shared login. Browse a catalog of more than 500 apps, such as Nextcloud, WordPress, and Vaultwarden, filter by quality level, and install in a few clicks, or paste a Git URL for a custom app. Each person signs in once at a portal that shows a tile for every app they may open, and apps with single sign-on skip their own login screen. Groups and per-app permissions control access, including public access for visitors, and the Admins group adds web admin, SSH, and sudo. A full mail stack handles incoming and outgoing email per domain with DKIM signing, and Let's Encrypt certificates renew automatically. The domain screen suggests the DNS records you need and can push them to a supported registrar's API, while free .nohost.me, .noho.st, and .ynh.fr subdomains configure themselves. Backups bundle system settings, mail data, and chosen apps into downloadable archives that can be restored selectively from the admin or the command line. Twice a day a built-in diagnosis checks DNS records, mail setup, and system resources, then emails the admins if anything needs attention, with a firewall editor and fail2ban protection alongside. 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.

With over 1,200 GitHub stars, 12,000+ commits, and more than a decade of active development distributed under the AGPL-3.0 license, Cozy Cloud operates as a comprehensive personal data hub that goes far beyond file storage by connecting your documents, contacts, calendars, banking transactions, energy bills, and productivity tools into a single self-hosted platform where no third party profiles you. The cozy-stack Go binary handles file storage, CouchDB document management, job scheduling, app serving, and the REST API in a single process consuming approximately 150MB of RAM idle. Sandboxed konnectors import data from 50+ external services — banks, utility providers, telecom operators, cloud drives — running as isolated jobs via nsjail to prevent untrusted code from accessing other user data. The built-in app store serves web applications in subdomain-isolated environments with Content Security Policy headers, each app communicating exclusively through the documented REST API. Real-time synchronization via PouchDB replication and WebSocket keeps files, contacts, and documents consistent across desktop clients, mobile apps for iOS and Android with automatic photo backup, and the web interface. Security features include automatic Let's Encrypt TLS certificates, Argon2id password hashing, optional TOTP two-factor authentication, and GDPR-compliant data export via the CLI. Each user receives their own isolated instance with independent storage, database, and application configuration. 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.

OxiCloud is a self-hosted cloud for files, photos, calendars, contacts, and office documents. Drives can be personal or shared, with configurable storage quotas. Multi-gigabyte uploads travel as parallel, resumable chunks with integrity verification. Images, PDFs, audio tracks, and video streams preview right in the browser, and photos show EXIF details and map locations. Files sync over WebDAV. Calendars sync over CalDAV. Contacts sync over CardDAV. Desktop file managers, Thunderbird, Apple Calendar, and mobile DAVx5 clients connect without proprietary software. Collabora Online or OnlyOffice plug in through WOPI for real-time co-editing of spreadsheets, presentations, and text documents. Administrators enforce role-based access controls. Sign-in runs through OpenID Connect providers such as Keycloak, Authentik, or Azure AD. Public share links can carry a password and an expiration. Identical files are stored once, and adaptive compression keeps footprints compact. Local disks, Amazon S3, and Azure Blob can be mounted at the same time, with live background migration and automated consistency checks. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Puter delivers a complete cloud operating system that runs entirely in the browser — turning any device with internet access into a full-featured personal computer with desktop environment, file management, application hosting, and developer platform. The familiar desktop interface presents windows, taskbar, right-click menus, drag-and-drop, and multi-window management indistinguishable from native operating systems. The hierarchical filesystem supports file creation, uploads, sharing, permissions, and trash recovery with storage backends ranging from local SQLite for self-hosting to S3 and DynamoDB for production scale. Built-in AI integration provides access to GPT-4, Claude, and other models directly from the desktop for text generation, code assistance, and image creation. The developer platform offers a JavaScript SDK, REST APIs, cloud storage, key-value database, and serverless workers for building and hosting web applications without managing infrastructure. Sandboxed applications run in iframes with IPC communication and permission-based access to filesystem, AI, and system services. The app store enables publishing, discovering, and monetizing applications built on the Puter platform. Website hosting publishes static sites with custom domains directly from the file manager. Multi-user support provides individual accounts with authentication, resource isolation, and sharing capabilities. Deploy via Docker with a single command, Docker Compose for production, or npm for development — the one-line install script handles everything automatically on Linux, macOS, and Windows. 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.

Somewhere between the shoebox and the inbox, Papra keeps receipts, warranties, and leases in a self-hosted archive you can actually search. Upload a photographed receipt and built-in OCR reads its text, so a search for the store name finds it later. Searches combine name:, content:, tag:, created:, and has: filters with AND, OR, NOT, and parentheses, and any query can be saved as a sidebar view. Tagging rules label uploads by name or content and can be applied to documents already stored. Optional AI auto-tagging works with a cloud provider or a local model such as Ollama. Custom properties add searchable typed fields such as text, number, date, yes or no, and select. Organizations keep a household's or a team's archive apart, with owner, admin, and member roles. Share links let outsiders open a document without an account, with optional passwords and expiry dates, and each link can be switched off. Forward an email to a generated address, or drop files into a watched folder, and documents arrive without opening the app; both are opt-in. Deleted files wait 30 days in the trash, and optional encryption protects stored files. Sign in with email, GitHub, Google, or a custom OAuth2 provider, and script the archive through the API, SDK, CLI, or webhooks. 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.

Browse, upload, edit, preview, and archive the files on your server from any web browser, with no FTP client, no shell session, and no database to set up. Tiny File Manager lists every folder in a sortable table showing size, modified date, permissions, and owner, with a search box that filters as you type. Drag files into the upload zone, send several at once, or paste a URL for the server to fetch. Rename items, select several to copy, move, delete, or pack into a zip or tar archive, and extract uploaded archives on the server. Click any text file to open the built-in editor, which offers syntax highlighting for 150+ languages and 35+ color themes, so quick fixes to configs and scripts happen where the files live. Images, audio, video, and text open in a preview without downloading, and every file has a copyable direct link. Give teammates or clients their own accounts, each locked to a root folder you choose, mark accounts read-only, and limit uploads to approved file extensions. Hide folders you never want listed, restrict access with IP allow and block lists, switch between light and dark themes, pick from 35+ interface languages, and use the responsive layout on a phone. Setup is one file copied to a web server, or one Docker container. 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.

Organizations seeking complete data sovereignty over their documents, spreadsheets, and shared project folders can deploy OpenCloud as a self-hosted workspace for file sync, sharing, and real-time collaboration across web, desktop, iOS, and Android clients. Teams organize departmental assets inside dedicated Spaces where files belong to the project rather than individual user accounts, ensuring continuity when personnel change and enabling delegated space managers to assign granular read, edit, or upload permissions. Through built-in WOPI integration with Collabora Online, multiple colleagues can co-edit Microsoft Office and OpenDocument files simultaneously in the browser with automatic conflict locking and version history recovery. External partners and clients can access files via password-protected public links with custom expiration dates or upload deliverables into write-only File Drop folders without seeing existing directory contents. Cross-organization collaboration works seamlessly over the Open Cloud Mesh federation protocol, while full-text and tag-based search locates documents across personal and shared drives in seconds. Client devices synchronize changes in real time with support for virtual files on demand, resumable chunked uploads, and offline mobile access with camera document scanning. 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.

The project that proved organizations could have Dropbox-style convenience with complete data ownership: ownCloud is the original open-source file sync and share platform - the codebase Nextcloud later forked from. This deployment runs the classic ownCloud Server (PHP over PostgreSQL or MariaDB, with Redis caching), the battle-tested edition trusted across enterprises, universities, and public institutions worldwide. The core loop: store files on your server, sync them via desktop clients for Windows, macOS, and Linux plus iOS and Android apps, and access everything through the web interface or standard WebDAV. Sharing is granular - internal users and groups, external recipients via public links with passwords and expiration dates, and federated sharing that connects separate ownCloud instances into one network. Security controls include file firewall rules, multi-factor authentication, encryption, and detailed audit-friendly lifecycle management with versioning and trash-bin recovery. An app marketplace extends the platform, and Web Office integrations bring collaborative document editing through Collabora Online, OnlyOffice, or Microsoft Office Online directly into your files. LDAP and Active Directory integration slots it into existing identity infrastructure. For teams that need a proven, self-hosted alternative to Dropbox or Google Drive - where compliance demands knowing exactly which disk your data sits on - ownCloud remains a foundational choice.