Free Software for Self-Hosted
Tornado
A free and open-source web framework and asynchronous networking library written in Python. Tornado was originally developed at FriendFeed, and is using a non-blocking network I/O that can be used to scale applications to tens of thousands of concurrent connection. Tornado is a great framework for applications that require long-lived connections between users, and for WebSockets or long polling.
n8n
n8n is a free and open node-based Workflow Automation Tool. n8n can be self-hosted, while also being provided as a managed sulotion at n8n.io. The software can easily be extended and integrated with popular third-party services such as Github, Slack and many more.
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is an open-source, highly scalable search and analytics engine written in Java. The engine is built ontop of Apache Lucene Library and has an advanced distributed model and consistent API interface. Elasticsearch allows you to store, search, and analyze huge volumes of data quickly and in near real-time with answers provided in milliseconds. Making it perfect for building full text search, analytics store, auto completer, spell checker, and alerting engines.
LevelDB
LevelDB is a free and open-source key-value storage library developed by Google. LevelDB provides on-disk storage and ordered mapping of string keys to string values. With LevelDB data is stored and sorted by key, and the keys and values are arbitrary byte arrays. The library will also automatically compress files using the Snappy compression library to optimize for storage capacity.
Vite.js
Vite provides next generation tooling for frontend JavaScript development. It allows users to enjoy an instant server start with on demand file serving over native ESM, without required bundling. This allows Vite to be extremely fast when compare to traditionally bundled solutions like Webpack, Yarn and Rollup. Vite also provides lightning fast HMR (Hot Module Reload) that remains performant regardless of application or project size.
Apache HTTP Server
A free and open-source cross-platform web server developed by the Apache Software Foundation. The Apache HTTP Server is a continuous development effort to build an open HTTP server for modern operating systems. The web server is used by organizations, businesses and hobbyists alike, to power web-based applications.
Caddy
Caddy is a powerful, enterprise-ready, open-source web server written in Go. The Caddy provides automatic SSL/TLS cretificates so that your application always is served over HTTPS.
VRaptor
VRaptor is a free and open-source MVC framework written in Java. VRaptor is used to develop web applications on top of CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE). The framework features tools that allow developers to maintain a high productivity and a developer experience loved by many. The VRaptor community consist of seasoned developers that freely build and distribute the framework free of charge.
Memcached
Memcached is a free and open-source in-memory key-value store used for storing small chunks of data objects in dynamic memory. Most commonly, Memcached is used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an data sources needs to be fetched. Rather than querying the database for each unique request, Memcached can be used to store data from common pages in memory and speedup and improve the experience of a web application or website.
Apache Wicket
Apache Wicket is a free and open-source, Java-based component oriented web application framwork. With Apache Wicket you can quickly create web well structured, component-based web applications. Apache Wicket is used by governments, stores, universities, cities, banks, email providers across the globe.