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24 alternatives to I built my own CDN to host over 20k websites
How and why we built our own global server network to host over 20,000 live websites.
Umso is a content delivery network built to host multiple websites at scale. It enables users to manage and serve over 20,000 websites through a single platform. The service is designed for those who need reliable… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. I built my own CDN to host over 20k websites launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Deploy static websites in seconds - with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains. - cloudkj/scar
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Umbrel Pro▲329Bring the cloud to your home with umbrelOS - a beautiful home server OS for self-hosting, and Umbrel Home and Umbrel Pro - plug-and-play home servers. Install Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Bitcoin node, and hundreds of self-hosted apps in one click.
Feb 2026 · umbrel.com · its alternatives →
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Unubo 2.0▲324Simplest way to deploy your web apps, APIs and databases
2019 · unubo.com · its alternatives →
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Connect your existing cloud files to Fastio, then give Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, and other AI agents secure file intelligence for search, analysis, and coordinated work.
2019 · fast.io · its alternatives →
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We built Nostr Web, a new way to publish and host websites that live entirely on the Nostr network instead of centralized servers. Each website is a collection of signed, verifiable Nostr events distributed across relays—so it can’t be taken down, censored, or lost. It includes: • DNS TXT records for domain-based discovery (_nweb.domain.com) • CLI publisher tool for versioned deployments (nw-publisher) • Browser extension (nw-extension) for native browsing experience • Relay v1.3.5 support for Nostr Web event kinds Try the live demo: https://nweb.shugur.com Repos:…
2025 · nweb.shugur.com · its alternatives →
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Enterprise Hosting Built for Speed, Security, and Scale
Jun 2026 · hostingultraso.com · its alternatives →
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Publish a simple, cheap, CDN backed, static website using a single AWS CloudFormation script - lifebeyondfife/simple-static-website
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · nuevocloud.com · its alternatives →
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Umbrel Home▲31Home server to run cloud storage, media/VPN server and more
2023 · umbrel.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · cloudbit.io · its alternatives →
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2020 · num.uk · its alternatives →
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:cloud: Node module for delivering optimized, minified, mangled, gzipped assets with Express and Amazon's CDN (S3/CloudFront) - ladjs/express-cdn
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello! We open sourced all our current MCP servers to platforms like Slack, Google sheets, Linear, Perplexity and will be contributing a few more integrations every day to the project. problems we're hoping to solve: - Many people are creating MCP servers for the same apps. They're scattered across different repos but flavors of the same thing. We're making one standardized mono project for all MCP servers. - Startups are charging for hosting MCP servers. This is blocking tons of people from being able to play around with MCP casually. We're hosting them for free. - Non-technical people…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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1-click, self-hosted deployment of OpenVPN with DNS ad blocking sinkhole - ezaquarii/vpn-at-home
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We’ve just launched NUM [1] in the UK, it’s an alternative to the semantic web [2] but based in DNS. We’ve published 23 million data points about 4.8m UK businesses. We had some really interesting HN feedback when we previously posted about one of our example apps [3] so keen to hear what the community has to say this time round. 1. https://www.num.uk 2. https://num.uk/blog/we-crawled-5m-uk-websites-and-published-23m-data-points-to-dns 3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27598164
2021 · its alternatives →
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Understand traffic, campaigns, behavior, conversions, and revenue in one privacy-first, open-source analytics platform. Self-host or use Umami Cloud.
2020 · umami.is · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We’re Yann, Edouard, and Bastien from Koyeb (https://www.koyeb.com/). We’re building a platform to let you deploy full-stack apps on high-performance hardware around the world, with zero configuration. We provide a “global serverless feeling”, without the hassle of re-writing all your apps or managing k8s complexity [1]. We built Scaleway, a cloud service provider where we designed ARM servers and provided them as cloud servers. During our time there, we saw customers struggle with the same issues while trying to deploy full-stack applications and APIs resiliently. As…
2023 · koyeb.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · eighty-twenty.org · its alternatives →
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Local development with .local domains and HTTPSfree tier, from $8/mo▲84Hi HN! I'm Jarek, and I've built this tool that allows publishing .local domains on the local network using mDNS. It also has a reverse proxy that handles HTTPS termination and port forwarding. I'm working on adding more features, like an index page with all available domains or allowing proxy redirects, so you could redirect from HTTP to HTTPS. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!
2023 · localcan.com · its alternatives →
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Unubo makes it easy for you to track progress by bringing metrics from your favourite tools into one place.
2019 · unubo.com · its alternatives →
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Vadootv - P2P CDN free solution demo using WebRTC to reduce video streaming bandwidth cost and improve latency for live streaming and VOD platforms
2020 · api.peervadoo.com · its alternatives →
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