Tools and applications that already speak S3 can use RustFS as their storage backend, so backup jobs, data pipelines, and services keep working while the data stays on infrastructure you control. A built-in web console on port 9001 manages buckets, object uploads and downloads, access keys, users, groups, and IAM policies, with a status page for cluster health, capacity, and scanner activity. Versioning, Object Lock retention, bucket quotas, and server-side encryption with Vault or AWS KMS backends protect objects once they land. Lifecycle rules expire or transition data, and tiering moves cold objects to remote targets such as Amazon S3 or Wasabi. Bucket replication and site replication keep clusters in sync, and event notifications call webhooks when objects change. Single-node mode suits a lab or small server, while distributed mode adds erasure coding, bitrot protection, background healing, and pool expansion or decommissioning as capacity grows. Sign-in works with local users, OIDC single sign-on, or OpenStack Keystone, and FTPS and WebDAV are available by default, with SFTP and the Swift API as opt-in builds. A preview of S3 Tables exposes an Iceberg REST catalog for tools such as DuckDB and PyIceberg, and a documented migration path moves existing MinIO deployments across. Typical uses include backups, container registries, logs and traces, data lakes, and AI training sets. 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.

Picture your object storage scattered across a home server, a friend's rack, and a cheap VPS in another country, still answering S3 requests like nothing happened: that is exactly the deployment Garage was built for. Every object is replicated to three zones, so losing a node, a disk, or an entire site degrades the cluster instead of destroying your data. Applications talk to it with the standard S3 API: create buckets, upload objects in multiple parts, list and copy them, and hand out access keys that are scoped per bucket. A separate web endpoint serves static websites straight from buckets with CORS support, which covers personal sites, documentation, and release downloads without another server in the chain. The whole system ships as one dependency-free binary that asks for about a gigabyte of RAM and any x86-64 or ARM CPU from the last decade, second-hand hardware very much included. There is deliberately no consensus protocol to babysit: nodes gossip their cluster layout, tolerate 200-millisecond links, and keep serving reads while parts of the fleet are unreachable. Deuxfleurs runs it in production for their own hosting, and common pairings include restic or rclone backup targets, Matrix media storage, and Nix binary caches. 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.

Garage UI is the web dashboard that Garage object storage never shipped, turning an admin API that speaks JSON over HTTP into screens your whole team can use. Create and configure buckets, browse objects with drag-and-drop uploads, and preview images, video, PDFs, and text inline instead of downloading files just to check what they are. A recursive search finds objects across a whole bucket, and bucket settings carry size and object-count quotas so one tenant cannot quietly eat the cluster. Access keys are created in the UI and assigned per-bucket permissions, replacing error-prone command-line key surgery. The cluster overview watches node status, layout configuration, and storage usage, so a degrading node shows up in the dashboard before it shows up as an outage. Sign-in flexes to your setup: no auth on a trusted network, basic admin credentials, the Garage admin token, or OIDC single sign-on through providers like Keycloak and Authentik. With OIDC teams enabled, access control maps token claims to bucket prefixes with named permission presets, and unmatched users are denied by default rather than promoted. Zero-config startup reads your existing garage.toml, so the first login takes minutes. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

By routing file transfers directly between client browsers and S3-compatible object storage through time-limited presigned URLs, Safebucket enables organizations to share large files and folders without bottlenecking their application server. Teams organize documents into logical buckets with nested folder hierarchies, preview images, videos, audio tracks, and PDFs inside a sandboxed browser viewer, or bundle up to one hundred selected items into a single client-side ZIP download. Public Quick Share links let external recipients download files or entire folders from a browser or via command-line curl redirects, while Reverse Share turns any shared folder into a secure dropbox where guests can upload files back under size and count quotas. Every shared link supports optional password protection, expiration dates, and maximum view limits, complemented by per-file expiration timers and a soft-delete trash bin with configurable retention. Two-tier role-based access control pairs platform roles (Admin, User, and Guest) with bucket-level permissions (Owner, Contributor, and Viewer), allowing teams to invite external collaborators via challenge-verified email links. Authentication integrates with OpenID Connect identity providers and LDAP or Active Directory servers alongside TOTP multi-factor authentication. Administrators gain a four-view governance console covering platform storage metrics, user and bucket inventories, and searchable audit trails filtered by action, user, and date range. 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 name means steam in Bulgarian, and the job matches: Para is the boiler room that powers your application's backend so you never build one from scratch. You store plain JSON objects through a REST API and get them back persisted, indexed for full-text search, and cached on every write, without designing schemas or gluing three systems together yourself. One server hosts many applications at once, each with its own table, search index, and cache, so a client project, a side app, and an internal tool can share a single deployment without sharing data. Users sign in with social accounts, LDAP, or SAML and receive JSON Web Tokens, while resource permissions decide exactly which objects each client may touch. Queries go beyond key lookups: field, wildcard, geo point, and more-like-this searches all run against the same stored objects. Signed webhooks notify your own endpoints when data changes, and an MCP server lets AI assistants manage configuration, data, and search against the same backend. The admin Web Console handles users, objects, backups, and permissions from the browser, and client libraries cover JavaScript, PHP, Java, C#, Android, and iOS. 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.

ShareX and file uploads, next generation: Zipline is a Node.js/React/PostgreSQL server that turns screenshot sharing and file hosting into something you run yourself instead of renting from Imgur or a paid image host. The core workflow is built around ShareX: generate an .sxcu config from your account settings, import it, and every screenshot or clipboard capture uploads to your domain with a short link copied automatically. Uploads accept any file type, organized with folders and tags, with token-protected uploading, optional password protection, view-limited auto-deletion, image compression, metadata stripping, automatic video thumbnails, and chunked/partial uploads for large files. File URLs come in configurable formats - UUIDs, dates, random alphanumerics, original names, even zero-width spaces. A built-in URL shortener adds vanity slugs, passwords, view caps, and custom domains. Discord embeds are first-class: customize OG metadata titles, descriptions, and colors so links unfurl exactly how you want, and fire fully customizable Discord or HTTP webhooks on each upload. Authentication is serious: OAuth2 (Discord, GitHub, Google, OIDC), TOTP two-factor, and passkeys, with invite-based registration and per-user quotas for shared instances. Storage targets local disk or any S3-compatible backend, a full REST API automates everything, and custom themes plus a PWA round out the experience.

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.

Encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on storage you already have - Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Google Drive, Azure, OneDrive, Dropbox, MEGA, Storj, WebDAV, SFTP, FTP, SMB, or a plain local disk - is what the MIT-licensed Duplicati has quietly done for years. Its security model is Trust No One: every block is encrypted with AES-256 (or a local GPG instance) before leaving the machine, and the passphrase never travels, so the storage provider holds only ciphertext. The block-based storage engine gives the best of both backup worlds: after one initial full backup, only changed data blocks upload - modify a tiny part of a huge file and only that part transfers - yet every backup version restores like a full backup in a single operation, with no incremental chains to replay. Deduplication and compression keep remote storage growth slow even across years of versions. A web interface manages everything: the built-in scheduler keeps backups current automatically, flexible filters select folders, file types, or custom patterns, retention policies prune old versions, and an integrated updater flags new releases. On compatible object-lock backends, immutable (WORM) storage protects backup data from ransomware that reaches the credentials. Runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, free even for commercial use.

Engineers who have outgrown Duplicati or rsync scripts tend to appreciate Kopia's design: encrypted, compressed, content-deduplicated snapshots in Go, stored in a repository on any storage you control - S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Backblaze B2, SFTP, WebDAV, or a plain filesystem. Encryption is mandatory and end-to-end: every block is encrypted client-side with AES-256-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1305 using keys derived from your repository password, and even file names never leave the machine in plaintext. Blocks are packed into 20-40 MB blobs with random names, so the storage provider learns nothing about content or structure. Deduplication is automatic and content-based - identical data across files, snapshots, and even multiple machines backing up to the same repository is stored once. Policies govern everything per-directory: compression choice, retention (hourly through annual), scheduling, and ignore rules. Incremental snapshots are point-in-time records you can mount and browse like a filesystem. This deployment runs the Kopia repository server with its web UI, centralizing backups from multiple client machines over an authenticated API - each client connects with the server URL and certificate fingerprint, and users only see their own snapshots. Error correction, high-latency-tolerant caching, and both CLI and GUI round it out.

Automating PostgreSQL backup lifecycles across local volumes and S3-compatible object storage, PG Back Web gives database administrators and developers a self-hosted web console to schedule, encrypt, monitor, download, and restore database dumps without writing manual shell scripts. Instead of maintaining fragile crontab entries across individual database servers, you register PostgreSQL 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, or 18 instances in one dashboard and define recurring backup schedules with custom retention policies and timezone-aware timestamps. Each backup execution can target local directories or multiple S3 buckets across providers like AWS S3, MinIO, Backblaze B2, and Cloudflare R2, with built-in connection testing and presigned download links for rapid archive retrieval. To protect sensitive production records at rest and in transit, the platform applies PGP encryption to dump files while encrypting stored database connection strings and bucket credentials. Real-time execution logs record exact archive sizes, durations, and output streams, and the web interface lets operators trigger on-demand dumps, duplicate existing backup jobs, or run direct browser-based restorations when disaster recovery is required. Automated background health checks continuously verify connectivity to every registered PostgreSQL database and storage destination, firing configurable HTTP webhooks to Slack, Discord, or incident pipelines whenever a backup completes, fails, or changes health status. 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 7,500 GitHub stars and 1 million Docker pulls — making it the most popular open-source database backup tool on GitHub ahead of pgBackRest and WAL-G — Databasus delivers production-grade backup management through a designer-polished web interface that replaces complex configuration files and CLI-only workflows. The platform supports PostgreSQL 14-18, MySQL 5.7-8, MariaDB 10-12, and MongoDB 4.2-8 with logical backups via pg_dump and mysqldump, while PostgreSQL 17+ enables physical backups using the native pg_basebackup engine with block-level incremental support via pg_basebackup --incremental and continuous WAL streaming via pg_receivewal for Point-in-Time Recovery to any second between backups. Storage destinations include local disk, AWS S3, CloudFlare R2, Google Drive, Azure Blob Storage, SFTP, NAS, and rclone-backed targets, while built-in AES-256-GCM encryption secures both backup files and stored credentials. Restore verification runs automated recovery into throwaway Docker containers, validating backups by comparing schema counts, table structure, and row counts against the source database — proving recoverability rather than merely checking checksums. The notification system integrates with Slack, Discord, Telegram, email, and webhooks for real-time backup status alerts. Deployment options span a single Docker container, Docker Compose with Caddy for automatic HTTPS, Helm charts for Kubernetes clusters, or a one-line install script. SSH tunnel support reaches databases in closed networks through bastion hosts without public exposure. 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.

Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, replaced by a platform you actually control: Nextcloud is the self-hosted digital workspace. Files is the core: file storage and sync across desktop, mobile, and web clients, with sharing, versioning, and collaboration built in. Around it, Talk provides private text chat, audio/video conferencing with screen sharing, SIP integration, and persistent voice rooms; Groupware bundles calendar, contacts, and mail with delegation support; and Office offers two collaborative suites - the Collabora-based option with deep ODF support, and Euro-Office, whose local-processing architecture delivers strong Microsoft Office compatibility and fast browser rendering with reduced server load. The Nextcloud Assistant threads AI through the platform via a context-aware sidebar, Whiteboard covers visual collaboration, Flow handles automation, and an app ecosystem of hundreds of extensions adds everything from Kanban boards to end-to-end encryption. Hub 26 brings a lighter UI with a unified app switcher and Nextcloud Governance for organizations under strict regulatory requirements. This is the flagship of data sovereignty: your files, chats, calendars, and documents live on your server, under your jurisdiction, with GDPR compliance by architecture rather than by contract.