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Hosting projects on GitHub

Platforms and services for hosting web applications and sites.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Hosting projects on GitHub are awesome-selfhosted (327.3K stars), appwrite (57.7K stars) and DNSHE-FreeDomains (20K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 16 Hosting repositories with 523.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was awesome-selfhosted, with +396 stars in a day.

16Projects

523.5KStars in total

+558Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+396

awesome-selfhosted

awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted · ★ 327.3K

It is a curated list of free-software network services and web applications that you can host yourself instead of relying on third-party SaaS providers.

+94

DNSHE-FreeDomains

dnshe/DNSHE-FreeDomains · ★ 20K

DNSHE is a free domain registration and DNS resolution service run by a Singapore youth public-interest team, giving developers, students, and open-source projects free subdomains under suffixes like us.ci, cc.cd, de5.net, and bot.cd, with Anycast DNS and full record management.

+15

appwrite

appwrite/appwrite · ★ 57.7K

Appwrite is an open-source, all-in-one backend platform for building web, mobile, and AI apps, bundling authentication, databases, storage, serverless functions, messaging, realtime, and web hosting in one place.

+12

Paymenter

Paymenter/Paymenter · ★ 2.7K

Paymenter is an open-source billing and webshop platform built specifically for hosting companies, letting them sell and manage hosting services and subscriptions.

The all-time top

16 projects · by stars

#1 · awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
awesome-selfhosted
It is a curated list of free-software network services and web applications that you can host yourself instead of relying on third-party SaaS providers.
327.3K
#2 · appwrite/appwrite
appwrite
Appwrite is an open-source, all-in-one backend platform for building web, mobile, and AI apps, bundling authentication, databases, storage, serverless functions, messaging, realtime, and web hosting in one place.
57.7K
#3 · dnshe/DNSHE-FreeDomains
DNSHE-FreeDomains
DNSHE is a free domain registration and DNS resolution service run by a Singapore youth public-interest team, giving developers, students, and open-source projects free subdomains under suffixes like us.ci, cc.cd, de5.net, and bot.cd, with Anycast DNS and full record management.
20K

4
ToolsOfTheTrade
17.2Kcjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade
A curated, categorized list of SaaS and self-hosted tools that startups and developers use instead of building and hosting their own infrastructure, originally collected from Hacker News discussions.
5
vercel
16.4Kvercel/vercel · TypeScript
This is the repository behind the Vercel CLI. Vercel positions its AI Cloud as a unified platform for building modern applications, so teams can focus on their products instead of infrastructure.
6
server
16.1Kgotify/server · Go
Gotify is a simple self-hosted server for sending and receiving messages in real time over WebSocket, with a sleek web UI included.
7
http-server
14.2Khttp-party/http-server · JavaScript
http-server is a simple, zero-configuration command-line static HTTP server: point it at a folder and it serves the files over HTTP. The README says it is powerful enough for production usage, yet simple and hackable enough to be used for testing, local development and learning.
8
FreeDomains
13.1Kstackryze/FreeDomains · JavaScript
Stackryze Domains is a free managed subdomain service that lets developers, students, and open-source projects claim a free subdomain (like yourname.indevs.in) and point it to any hosting provider or their own infrastructure.
9
stack-on-a-budget
12.5K255kb/stack-on-a-budget
A curated list of cloud and SaaS services that have generous free tiers, aimed at developers who want to build and even run small apps in production without paying hosting bills.
10
ubicloud
12.3Kubicloud/ubicloud · Ruby
Ubicloud is an open source cloud platform that runs on bare metal servers, offering elastic compute, non-replicated block storage, firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, Kubernetes, AI inference, and IAM services as an open alternative to AWS.
11
bunkerweb
11.1Kbunkerity/bunkerweb · Python
BunkerWeb is an open-source, next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF) built as a full-featured web server on top of NGINX. It protects your web applications and APIs 'secure by default' while integrating as a reverse proxy into your existing environment.
12
Paymenter
2.7KPaymenter/Paymenter · PHP
Paymenter is an open-source billing and webshop platform built specifically for hosting companies, letting them sell and manage hosting services and subscriptions.
13
golive-skill
1.3Kmikehasa/golive-skill · TypeScript
GoLive is an open-source Agent Skill plus a zero-dependency Node CLI that takes an agent-built app live by detecting what it needs, planning the exact changes, asking for your approval, applying them with your own accounts, and verifying what actually works - covering hosting, databases, domains, email and payments.
14
awesome-hosting
943dalisoft/awesome-hosting
A curated directory of hosting providers — from VPS and static hosts to databases, GPU clouds and AI inference — comparing each one by the price of its cheapest plan.
15
Kooboo
344Kooboo/Kooboo · JavaScript
An all-in-one 'AI-native Web OS' for building, running, and owning websites, online stores, and business applications — AI site creation, visual editing, CMS, databases, ecommerce, email, analytics, and hosting in one integrated system.
16
durable-git
263littledivy/durable-git · TypeScript
dgit is a git server for Cloudflare Workers and for your own machines with celld. Each repository is a Durable Object with its own SQLite database: it speaks the git smart HTTP protocol to a stock git client and renders a cgit-style web interface.