Spreadsheets and sticky notes stop scaling the day your network grows past a rack or two, so JT-IPAM keeps every address, subnet, and device in one searchable system of record. Track subnets and individual IPs with their hostnames, MAC addresses, and owners, then reconcile what you documented against what scan agents actually find through ICMP, ARP, reverse DNS, and SNMP collection from routers and switches. Connect the DNS servers you already run, from PowerDNS and BIND 9 to Windows DNS and Technitium, and flag records that have no matching address in IPAM. Pull devices and virtual machines in from LibreNMS, Zabbix, Proxmox VE, ESXi, Hyper-V, and OpenStack so monitoring and address records stop drifting apart. Draw floor plans and rack elevations, trace a cable across multiple hops, and open an SSH terminal, SFTP browser, or RDP desktop to a device straight from its address page. Route new address requests through configurable multi-stage approval workflows, distribute certificates to web servers and firewalls from central encrypted storage, and keep a full audit trail of every change and console session. 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.

From the first rack to the last circuit, Nautobot is the open-source network source of truth that records what your network should look like and runs automation against it. Built-in models cover locations, racks, devices, interfaces, cables, VLANs, VRFs, IP prefixes, circuits, and contacts, so one searchable record replaces the spreadsheet and the wiki. Teams encode their own standards with custom fields, user-defined relationships, computed fields, and validation rules. Config contexts attach JSON or YAML data, such as syslog servers, to devices by location, role, platform, or tag. Jobs run your own automation code from the web UI, REST API, or command line, on a schedule, or through hooks when an object changes, with approvals and logs built in. Query the data over REST or GraphQL, and let the GraphiQL editor autocomplete a device and interface query you can save inside Nautobot. When an object is created, updated, or deleted, webhooks notify outside systems, with Jinja2-templated bodies and HMAC SHA-512 signatures. Git repositories can carry export templates, Jobs, and config contexts too, so YAML data and Jinja2 templates get pull request review before Nautobot syncs them. Open-source Apps add Golden Configuration for config backup, compliance, and remediation, Device Lifecycle for hardware tracking, SSoT for syncing other systems, and ChatOps. Object permissions and change logging keep a shared instance auditable. 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.

Mapping every physical server, virtual machine, container, and network link across a sprawling homelab into a live interactive canvas, Circuit Breaker gives infrastructure operators real-time topology visualization, IP address management, and rack elevation modeling on a single screen. Operators can switch between hierarchical, concentric, cortex ring, radial, and force-directed graph layouts where animated edges reflect link speeds and color-coded status rings display live hardware health. Automated discovery scans local subnets using nmap, SNMP, and ARP while querying Proxmox VE clusters, TrueNAS storage pools, and UniFi controllers, staging newly detected nodes in a review queue before adding them to the map. For multi-site labs or isolated VLANs, lightweight remote agents connect outbound over Noise-encrypted links after fingerprint approval to report host telemetry and run scoped network scans without opening inbound firewall ports. Rack diagrams let administrators drag servers into U slots with cabling overlays using a built-in catalog covering Dell, HPE, Supermicro, Ubiquiti, MikroTik, Synology, and APC gear alongside live iDRAC, iLO, and UPS metrics. Role-based access control, OIDC single sign-on, TOTP multi-factor authentication, encrypted full-state snapshots, and a SHA-256 hash-chained audit log keep multi-user operations accountable. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

NetMap answers the four questions every homelab owner asks in four different tools: what is on my network, what address did it get, is it still up, and why is the firewall shouting about it. Devices you add appear automatically on a visual canvas where you can drag them into place, draw the links between them, and group them into VLANs or separate sites, and the layout is still there when you come back. Behind the map, every device is watched continuously: ping times graphed over history, service checks on the ports you care about, a heartbeat strip that betrays intermittent dropouts, and an uptime percentage that settles arguments. Address management stops being a spreadsheet: define subnets, import the leases your router already handed out, see used and free addresses as a grid, and get warned before a duplicate assignment causes a mysterious outage. Firewall logs stream in live and each entry links to the device it concerns, ready to search by address, port, or protocol. When something new appears, a network scan discovers hosts with their names, hardware addresses, and open ports for review before they join the inventory. 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.

Every cable, switch port, VLAN, and rack unit in a homelab or small server room gets a documented place in Rackpad, a self-hosted inventory and operations workspace. Rack elevations show mounted gear, including paired half-width appliances. Switch-panel port maps and aggregate ports show what is patched where. Cables carry type, length, and color, editable in bulk. VLANs, subnets, DHCP scopes, reservations, and zones sit in one Networks workspace, with gateway and DNS protection and a mismatch review for IP assignments. Storage topology follows drives, bays, and pools that span several devices. Wi-Fi controllers, access points, hypervisor hosts, and virtual machines have pages of their own, and Proxmox and Hyper-V hosts can be imported after review. Discovery scans a subnet or any CIDR and stages every finding in an inbox. Per-device checks over ICMP, TCP, HTTP, HTTPS, and SNMP raise alerts by email, Discord, or Telegram. Everything feeds a movable topology map. Markdown runbooks attach to devices, and an audit log records every change. Admin, editor, and viewer roles control access, and OpenID Connect login is optional. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

PowerDNS answers the queries; Poweradmin gives you a browser-based control panel for its zones, records, DNSSEC keys, and users, with a REST API for automation. Create master, native, and slave zones, and let zone templates stamp predefined record sets onto new ones. Edit records inline with filters, or open the optional Record Wizard for DMARC, SPF, DKIM, CAA, TLSA, and SRV. Reverse zones link to their forward zones. The batch PTR tool fills whole network ranges, bulk add takes one CSV line per record, and secondary zones can be imported over AXFR. For DNSSEC, manage keys and copy DS and DNSKEY records for your registrar; changes are applied or rectified through the PowerDNS API so signed zones stay consistent. Every record and zone edit is logged with before and after snapshots, and the logs can be filtered and exported. The panel is translated into 43 languages, including right-to-left ones. Permission templates, users, and groups control who touches which zones, sign-in works through LDAP, OIDC, or SAML, and administrators can switch on authenticator-app or email two-factor codes. API keys can be read-only, limited to chosen operations, or restricted to specific zones, and companion projects link Terraform, ExternalDNS, cert-manager, and Certbot. Dynamic DNS clients such as ddclient and inadyn update records through a dyndns2-compatible endpoint. 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.

Raw zone files and API calls become something a whole team can operate safely once PowerDNS-Admin puts its web interface in front of a PowerDNS authoritative server. It's a Python/Flask application covering full forward and reverse zone management, with the touches that matter in daily DNS work: zone templates for stamping out consistent new domains, easy IPv6 PTR record editing (reverse zones by hand are misery), full IDN/Punycode support for internationalized domains, and DynDNS 2 protocol support so routers and scripts can update records the way they would against a commercial dynamic-DNS service. Access control is enterprise-grade: local users, LDAP against OpenLDAP or Active Directory, SAML, and OAuth via Google, GitHub, Azure, or OpenID Connect, hardened with TOTP two-factor authentication. Role-based permissions extend to zone-specific access control - hand a developer their project's zone without exposing the rest of your namespace - and activity logging records who changed which record when, the audit trail bare PowerDNS never gives you. The dashboard monitors PDNS service configuration and statistics, and its own API exposes zone and record management for automation on top of the UI. Runs against MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL, talking to PowerDNS through its REST API. MIT-licensed.

Subnet math, DNS lookups, DHCP options, and certificate checks share one browser tab in Networking Toolbox, a free toolkit for sysadmins and network engineers. Need to carve a /24 into departments? The VLSM planner fits named subnet requirements into a parent block, reports each subnet's efficiency and the leftover space, and exports the plan as CSV or JSON. Merging address lists? CIDR utilities summarize, split, compare, and deaggregate prefixes, with set operations for difference, overlap, and containment. Writing configs? Generators build DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 options, PXE profiles, Kea or ISC snippets, and SPF, DKIM, DMARC, CAA, TLSA, and SRV records, and DNSSEC helpers calculate key tags and DS records. Something broken? Diagnostics query DNS through Cloudflare, Google, Quad9, OpenDNS, or a resolver of your choice, read TLS certificate chains, grade HTTP security headers, trace redirects, check TCP ports, look up BGP routes and RDAP records, and test mail servers. Need a refresher? Reference guides explain private ranges, CGNAT, IPv6 address types, and common ports. A keyboard search palette puts any tool a few keystrokes away, and bookmarked tools stay available offline. Eighteen themes, four languages, custom branding, and accessibility switches make it feel like your own, and a keyless JSON API serves the subnet, CIDR, IP, and DNS utilities to scripts. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Netra watches your network from the side, plugged into a switch mirror port, and turns everything it sees into a live picture of your traffic without ever sitting in the forwarding path. A single binary loads its eBPF collectors in the kernel, so aggregation happens before packets reach user space and multi-gigabit mirror feeds stay observable instead of dropping samples. The dashboard opens on totals, protocol share, and traffic trends, then lets you drill into flows by address, port, domain, or service, check which countries your traffic talks to on a world map, and read the internal topology as a live graph. Domains surface passively from TLS handshakes, public addresses are enriched with country and organization data, and heuristic detectors flag scanning, flooding, and single-host surges, pushing alerts to your team chat with an optional AI-written explanation. You can ask the built-in assistant questions about real recorded history, connect external MCP servers so it can call your own tools while it answers, and stream flows onward to Kafka for other consumers. History rolls into compressed columnar files on a schedule and stays queryable for a month by default. 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.

Before the maintenance window, know exactly where the traffic will go: Topolograph rebuilds your network the way its routing protocols see it and lets you break it safely on screen. Upload one router's LSDB output, from Cisco, Juniper, Arista, FRRouting, MikroTik, and a dozen other vendors, and the whole area's topology appears as an interactive graph, because the protocol already flooded it everywhere. Compute the shortest path between any two routers and see every equal-cost alternative with per-link loads, then fail a link or a node and watch SPF recalculate: which pairs moved to backup, which are left with none, and how the load shifted on every surviving link. Search the graph for prefixes, MAC addresses, or any network element, plan an MPLS TE path against real bandwidth attributes, and compare snapshots from different moments to answer what changed before the incident. Collectors can stream live OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP events over GRE, BGP-LS, or BMP so the timeline replays the network at the moment things broke, and a REST API, Python SDK, and MCP server let your own tooling and AI agents ask the same questions. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Every microservice has to find the others and learn its own settings, and Nacos is the discovery and configuration platform that answers both needs from a single server. Producers register instances with names, addresses, weights, and metadata, and consumers look services up or subscribe to changes, so a fresh instance receives traffic without hand-edited load balancer rules. Health checks drop dead instances from discovery results, while weight controls in the console shift traffic gradually during a rollout or drain a node before maintenance. Configuration lives apart from code: publish properties and YAML under a Data ID and Group, split environments with namespaces, and subscribed clients apply changes within seconds. History keeps every published version, so a typo is recoverable: rollback republishes an earlier value, and listener queries show which clients picked the change up. Gray releases push a new value to a chosen slice of instances first, so a risky flag reaches a fraction of the fleet before the rest. The registry covers AI building blocks too: MCP servers register their tools, prompts and skills carry versions and visibility, and agents publish discovery cards that gateways look up like any service. Spring Cloud, Dubbo, and Kubernetes workloads plug in through SDKs for Java, Go, Python, and other languages; run one standalone node for development or a Raft-backed cluster for production. 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.

Tag a Docker container with two labels, and AutoXpose turns it into a published service with a DNS record, a reverse proxy route, and HTTPS, without you opening a single provider dashboard. From the web dashboard you connect one of six DNS providers, Cloudflare, Netlify, DigitalOcean, Porkbun, Aliyun, or Tencent DNSPod, and point it at the Nginx Proxy Manager or Caddy instance you already run. It watches your containers continuously after that: a new label creates the record, propagation is verified before the service shows as live, and removing the container removes its public entries too. Auto-expose mode publishes containers the moment they appear, while manual mode stages them in the dashboard for approval first. Color-coded service tags sort what you run into web, database, and media groups at a glance, and dashboard warnings flag misconfigurations before they become broken links. Nginx Proxy Manager access lists attach by label, so an admin panel stays reachable only from the networks you trust. When containers vanish, orphaned cleanup hunts down the stale DNS records and proxy hosts they left behind. Settings and state live inside the same single container, so the publishing pipeline for a homelab or a small fleet stays one compose service you can back up as a unit. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.