“Growing your own” is a common expression used by people who grow their own food and plants in a garden or allotment. This site encourages people to “grow their own” online services by setting up their own social networks, personal clouds and websites.

Self-hosting is the practice of hosting and managing applications on your own server(s) instead of consuming from SaaSS providers.

This is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own server(s). Non-Free software is listed on the Non-Free page.