Warpgate is a clientless bastion host and privileged access management gateway that lets engineering teams secure, assign, and audit access to internal SSH servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and remote desktops from a single portal without installing VPN clients. Connect directly from standard tools like OpenSSH, VS Code Remote, psql, mysql, kubectl, or native RDP clients using formatted credentials, or launch browser-based SSH terminals, RDP desktops, and VNC sessions straight from the web interface. Administrators map users and roles to specific internal targets with granular 1:1 permissions, enforcing multi-factor authentication via TOTP and Single Sign-On through OpenID Connect providers like Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, and Okta with automatic group-to-role provisioning. Every interactive terminal command, database query, HTTP request, and remote desktop session is captured in real time so security auditors can watch active connections live or replay historical recordings on demand from the web dashboard. Built-in brute-force defense automatically blocks suspicious IP addresses and locks compromised accounts, while temporary access tickets, just-in-time session approvals, encrypted credential storage, and S3-compatible recording archival support enterprise compliance workflows across multi-node clusters. 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.

Terminals, remote desktops, and file browsers for every server you run: Nexterm opens them over SSH, VNC, RDP, Telnet, or SFTP from a self-hosted web page. Servers live in folders with tags and custom icons. Connections open as tabs or split views, keep running across browsers and devices, and can hibernate and resume later. The file manager handles SFTP and FTP: drag files in, upload whole folders, search, and edit in place with syntax highlighting. Live metrics track CPU, memory, disk, network, and processes for each host. Snippets store the commands you retype most. Scripts run whole maintenance jobs. Git repositories added as sources bring ready-made ones filtered by operating system. Organizations share servers through role-based permissions, and every action is logged. Record full terminal sessions for audits and training, or send a shared-session link so a colleague can join, read-only or writable. Authentication covers local accounts with TOTP and passkeys, OIDC providers such as Keycloak, Authentik, and Microsoft Entra ID, and LDAP or Active Directory. Saved passwords, SSH keys, and passphrases stay encrypted at rest. A Proxmox integration lists LXC containers and QEMU virtual machines and can start or stop them. An opt-in AI assistant drafts shell commands from plain-language requests. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Termix delivers a unified, self-hosted infrastructure control center that consolidates SSH terminals, remote desktop streaming, and fleet automation into an intuitive browser workspace that replaces proprietary tools like Termius. Administrators connect to Linux servers and desktop environments using embedded RDP, VNC, and Telnet protocols powered by Apache Guacamole without requiring local client installations. The multi-panel terminal interface supports four-way split screens, allowing operators to broadcast keystrokes simultaneously across multiple production hosts or execute saved reusable script snippets with dynamic parameters. Real-time multiplayer session sharing lets engineers invite teammates via secure, time-limited links with configurable read-only or collaborative write permissions for troubleshooting incidents. Advanced networking layers handle SSH jump hosts, SOCKS5 proxy chains, Warpgate relays, and port knocking sequences to access segmented private networks securely. Integrated SFTP file managers provide drag-and-drop file transfers with editable path bars, inline text editing, and folder synchronization across remote machines. Background telemetry monitors CPU loads, memory utilization, disk IOPS, and container statuses, while built-in session recording captures complete terminal sessions for compliance auditing. 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.

With over 7,000 GitHub stars and continuous development since 2017 by former Intel engineer Ylian Saint-Hilaire, MeshCentral has become the go-to self-hosted alternative to ConnectWise Control and Splashtop for managing devices remotely without per-seat licensing fees. The Node.js server installs via a single npm command and manages Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD endpoints through lightweight agents that maintain persistent WebSocket connections for real-time remote desktop, terminal access, and file transfer directly in the browser. Intel AMT integration provides out-of-band hardware management including power control and BIOS access even when the operating system is unresponsive. Device groups organize endpoints by location, customer, or function with granular role-based access control for multi-technician environments. Session recording captures remote desktop interactions for compliance auditing, while Wake-on-LAN powers on machines remotely across subnets. The server supports MongoDB for production deployments handling thousands of agents or the embedded NeDB for smaller setups under 200 devices, with a single 8GB VPS comfortably managing 1,500 concurrent agents. Security features include mandatory TLS with automatic Let's Encrypt certificate provisioning, multi-factor authentication via TOTP and FIDO2, SAML-based single sign-on, IP filtering, and HashiCorp Vault integration for secrets management. The web console provides real-time device monitoring with hardware and software inventory, network topology visualization, and customizable branding. TacticalRMM uses MeshCentral as its remote access layer. 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.

With over 34,000 GitHub stars and backing from a well-funded engineering team, Tailscale has fundamentally simplified how developers and system administrators think about secure networking. The client daemon establishes WireGuard tunnels directly between devices using sophisticated NAT traversal techniques, achieving direct peer-to-peer connections in the vast majority of network configurations without requiring port forwarding, firewall rules, or VPN concentrators. When direct connections prove impossible due to restrictive network environments, DERP relay servers provide encrypted fallback paths. MagicDNS assigns human-readable hostnames to every device on the network, eliminating the need to remember IP addresses across a tailnet. Subnet routing allows nodes to advertise access to entire local networks, enabling remote access to office resources, home labs, or cloud VPCs through a single gateway node. Exit node functionality routes all internet traffic through a designated device for privacy protection or geographic flexibility. Access control lists define granular policies for which devices and users can communicate with which services, enforced cryptographically at the network layer. The authentication layer integrates with identity providers including Google, Microsoft, GitHub, Apple, and OIDC-compliant systems for single sign-on access. Taildrop enables direct encrypted file transfers between devices without cloud intermediaries. The tailscale CLI provides complete network management from the terminal including status monitoring, route advertisement, and node configuration. Running Tailscale on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console provides a permanent, always-on node in your mesh network. BSD-3-Clause licensed with an active open-source community.

Wag is an authentication gateway for WireGuard that lets each device reach only the routes it should, and asks for a second factor before the sensitive ones open. Admins write access policies for everyone, groups, or single users, marking subnets, hosts, ports, and protocols as MFA-required, always allowed, or denied, and the most specific prefix wins, so one allowed address can sit inside a protected range. Devices join with a registration token, and the public endpoint answers with a finished WireGuard profile. Users then confirm a TOTP code, a WebAuthn security key, an OIDC single sign-on login that maps identity provider groups into Wag groups, or a PAM prompt, and repeated failures lock the account. Session lifetime and idle timeouts decide when they must prove themselves again. The browser portal lists users, devices, rules, registration tokens, and webhooks with real-time notifications, while a command line locks devices, resets MFA, and manages administrators. Webhooks turn JSON from an HR or identity system into new tokens or removed users and devices, and clients can fetch the list of guarded routes from a small API. Remote staff, contractors limited to one host, and homelabs are typical uses. When a server fails, the VPN remains reachable through clustering with witness nodes or an external etcd, and certificates arrive through ACME with HTTP-01 or Cloudflare DNS-01. 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.

ZTNET provides a polished web dashboard for running your own ZeroTier network controller, covering network creation, member authorization, IP assignment, flow rule editing, and real-time node monitoring entirely from the browser. The organization system supports multi-tenant deployments where teams manage separate network pools with role-based permissions and customizable email notification templates for events like member joins, departures, IP changes, and authorization updates. Each network view displays connected members with their ZeroTier addresses, assigned IPs, last-seen timestamps, physical endpoints, and protocol versions in a clean tabular layout. The admin panel provides platform-wide user management, SMTP configuration for transactional emails, and system-level settings. Built on the T3 stack with Next.js, Prisma ORM, tRPC, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS with DaisyUI components, the application supports both PostgreSQL and SQLite for persistence and communicates directly with the ZeroTier controller daemon through its native API. Dark and light themes adapt to user preference, and responsive layouts make network management practical from any device. Docker Compose bundles the web application alongside the ZeroTier controller service. Over 100,000 Docker pulls confirm steady community adoption. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Instead of wrestling with raw command-line flags and YAML configuration files for every device on your self-hosted Headscale mesh VPN, Headplane gives you a Tailscale-style web administration console to manage machines, users, DNS records, and access policies from any browser. From the machines overview, network administrators can inspect connected nodes, view Tailnet IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, rename devices, reassign ownership across users, toggle key expiration, and approve advertised subnet routes or exit nodes in a couple of clicks. Built-in Access Control List (ACL) management lets you edit security policies, define user groups, assign node tags, and configure auto-approvers without manually SSHing into your control server. When someone needs immediate shell access to a remote Linux host on the mesh, the integrated WebSSH console opens an interactive terminal session right inside the browser tab over Tailscale SSH. You can also manage MagicDNS settings, configure split DNS nameservers, and add custom DNS records that automatically reload your Headscale instance. Multi-user administration supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) single sign-on with identity providers like Okta, Authentik, Authelia, and Google Workspace, alongside granular role assignments and pre-authentication key generation for unattended server enrollment. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Fleet lets IT and security teams query every device in their organization like a SQL database, using osquery to surface installed software, running processes, configurations, and vulnerabilities within seconds across macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS. The Go-based server exposes a web console and REST API for centralized device management, with MDM capabilities built on nanoMDM for Apple device enrollment, configuration profiles, and remote lock or wipe. Vulnerability management cross-references installed software inventories against NVD and OVAL CVE databases, automatically flagging known vulnerabilities with severity scores and remediation guidance. Software deployment handles OS updates using Apple Declarative Device Management, Windows Update, and custom installer packages distributed through S3-compatible storage. A GitOps workflow enables infrastructure-as-code management where device policies, osquery queries, and configuration profiles live as YAML files in Git repositories, with CI/CD pipelines pushing changes through the fleetctl CLI. The fleetd agent bundle includes osquery for telemetry, Orbit for version management, and Fleet Desktop providing end users a menu bar status indicator. Integrations connect to Snowflake, Splunk, Elastic, Jira, Zendesk, Vanta, and GitHub Actions for automated compliance reporting. CIS benchmark policies verify security baselines across operating systems. Deployment requires MySQL for persistence and Redis for caching, running as Docker containers or on Kubernetes. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Unpatched Linux servers expose production environments to critical vulnerabilities, and PatchMon eliminates that blind spot by centralizing package telemetry, security advisory tracking, and automated update orchestration across your entire fleet. Administrators can inspect pending updates across APT, DNF, YUM, APK, Pacman, Zypper, FreeBSD pkg, Windows Update, and winget from one unified queue without opening inbound firewall ports on monitored hosts. Before touching production workloads, operators run dry-run validations to preview exact package transactions, enforce multi-user approval workflows, and schedule rollouts during fixed maintenance windows. During execution, live agent output streams directly to the browser over WebSocket so engineers can watch progress in real time or halt a problematic upgrade mid-flight. Beyond package updates, the platform runs OpenSCAP CIS benchmark and Docker Bench security assessments, inventories running containers and outdated base images, and routes host-down or threshold alerts to Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, ntfy, or email. Built-in browser SSH and Apache Guacamole RDP terminals let teams troubleshoot machines directly through the outbound agent tunnel with role-based access control and OIDC single sign-on. 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 24,000 GitHub stars and a rapidly growing community of self-hosters, authentik delivers enterprise-grade identity management that replaces commercial solutions like Okta and Auth0 with a fully self-hosted platform requiring no per-user licensing fees. The platform serves as a unified identity provider supporting SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, LDAP for legacy application compatibility, SCIM 2.0 for automated user provisioning, and RADIUS for network device authentication. The visual flow designer enables administrators to create custom authentication workflows combining password verification, multi-factor authentication with TOTP, WebAuthn, and SMS codes, email verification, captcha challenges, and conditional logic based on user attributes or device context. The forward-auth and reverse proxy integration works seamlessly with Traefik, Nginx, Caddy, and Envoy to protect applications that lack built-in authentication. User enrollment flows support self-registration with configurable approval workflows, invitation links, and automatic group assignment. The LDAP outpost exposes user and group data to legacy applications requiring LDAP bind authentication, while the SCIM provider automates user lifecycle management with downstream applications. Multi-tenancy support through brands allows a single authentik instance to serve multiple organizations with independent domains, branding, and authentication policies. The admin interface provides comprehensive user management, group hierarchy, application catalog, event logging with GeoIP enrichment, and system health monitoring. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Licensed under a source-available license with an open-source community edition.

Authelia is the leading open-source SSO and multi-factor authentication server for self-hosted infrastructure. The Go backend compiles to a single binary or Docker container image, serving a TypeScript React web portal that handles first-factor username and password login, second-factor authentication via TOTP, WebAuthn FIDO2 security keys, passwordless passkeys, and Duo mobile push notifications, and an OpenID Connect 1.0 and OAuth 2.0 identity provider with device code flow, JWE encrypted ID tokens, custom claims policies, and network-scoped authorization criteria. The forward authentication model integrates with Nginx auth_request, Traefik ForwardAuth, HAProxy, Caddy, Envoy, SWAG, and Skipper reverse proxies, injecting Remote-User, Remote-Groups, and Remote-Email headers into authorized requests. Granular access control rules match subject, groups, request URI, HTTP method, and network to enforce one-factor and two-factor policies per route. The user backend supports LDAP with attribute mapping, connection pooling, and bind mode, or YAML file-based authentication with Argon2id hashed passwords. Session state stores in Redis for high availability across clustered deployments, while persistent data lives in SQLite, MySQL and MariaDB, or PostgreSQL. Brute force protection locks accounts after configurable failed attempts, and email-based identity verification handles password resets and device registration. Dark, light, and OLED themes with i18n localization customize the portal appearance. On RepoCloud, deploy Authelia on a dedicated VPS with Docker, root SSH access, and complete control over your authentication infrastructure, all under the Apache-2.0 license.

To protect self-hosted web services behind a unified single sign-on portal without deploying complex enterprise identity suites, Tinyauth acts as an OpenID Certified authentication server and reverse proxy middleware. Homelab operators and infrastructure teams place it in front of internal dashboards, media servers, and administrative tools routed through Traefik, Caddy, Nginx, Nginx Proxy Manager, or LinuxServer SWAG. Users can sign in with local bcrypt-hashed credentials, scan QR codes to enroll time-based one-time password authenticators for two-factor verification, or authenticate through external OAuth providers like GitHub, Google, and Pocket ID. Organizations running centralized directories can bind Tinyauth directly to an LDAP server such as LLDAP or OpenLDAP and automatically synchronize group memberships for role-based authorization. Fine-grained access control rules configured via dynamic Docker container labels or environment variables let administrators whitelist or block specific usernames, OAuth email regex patterns, OIDC groups, client IP CIDR ranges, and URL path prefixes per subdomain. For applications that support native federated login, the built-in OpenID Connect 1.0 discovery endpoint, authorization code flow, and userinfo API allow seamless single sign-on with optional consent skipping for trusted clients. 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.

A self-hosted front door for apps that live on home labs, office LANs, and private clusters, Wiredoor publishes them to the internet without opening a single inbound port on the private side. The Wiredoor CLI on each remote machine dials out to the server over an encrypted WireGuard tunnel. Web apps and APIs are routed by domain and path, WebSocket traffic included, while TCP and UDP services such as SSH or Redis get a public port of their own. Public domains receive Let's Encrypt certificates, internal names fall back to self-signed ones, and Cloudflare or GoDaddy credentials let the server create DNS records itself. Any web route can demand OAuth2 sign-in with an email allow list and a few open paths, and every protocol accepts IP allow lists. Gateway nodes stretch one tunnel across a Docker network, Kubernetes cluster, or private subnet, so a single link serves many backends. Services can be switched off or given an expiry such as 30 minutes, 2 hours, or 1 day. The dashboard shows which nodes are connected and whether their services are enabled, while the CLI creates, enables, and disables services from a terminal. Optional Prometheus and Grafana views chart traffic and tunnel peers, and CrowdSec can block abusive addresses. 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.

Combining Docker container labels with a live web control plane, DockFlare automates Cloudflare Tunnel ingress routing, multi-zone DNS records, and Zero Trust Access policies across self-hosted infrastructure. DevOps engineers and homelab operators can attach simple container labels to expose HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, SSH, and RDP services publicly in seconds without clicking through external cloud dashboards. For non-containerized workloads such as bare-metal hypervisors or network appliances, administrators can define manual ingress rules, path-based routes, custom TLS SNI headers, and origin certificate bypass flags directly in the web interface. Security teams use reusable Access Groups and wildcard zone policies to enforce Google, GitHub, Azure AD, or custom OIDC authentication across every subdomain from a single policy definition. Distributed deployments connect lightweight remote agents back to the primary controller using Zero Trust service tokens so multi-host clusters share one unified routing view. When containers stop or restart, configurable grace-period timers prevent accidental route churn before cleaning up stale DNS entries, while encrypted state backups protect your entire ingress configuration. 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.

A minimal Ubuntu 24.04 LTS virtual private server — no pre-installed applications, no opinionated configuration, just the operating system and root access. Start from a clean slate and install exactly what you need: web servers, databases, development toolchains, CI runners, monitoring stacks, VPN endpoints, game servers, or anything else that runs on Linux. The server ships with apt package management, systemd service supervision, and standard networking configured out of the box, giving you access to over 36,000 packages in the Universe repository alone. Connect via SSH with the key you select during deployment; a dedicated IPv4 address is included with every server at no extra charge. A browser-based serial console in the RepoCloud dashboard provides emergency access without an SSH client. Snapshots let you capture the server state before risky changes and roll back with one click. Resize CPU and RAM on demand without reinstalling. Canonical's standard security maintenance covers this LTS release through May 2029 — five years of patches for the Main repository. Ubuntu Pro extends that to ten years with additional Universe coverage, kernel livepatching, and compliance tooling, available free for up to five machines.