Flame

Flame is a self-hosted startpage and home dashboard designed for personal servers and homelabs. Built with a Node.js and Express backend and a React + TypeScript frontend, it provides a polished, GUI-managed hub for organising self-hosted applications and bookmarks — no file editing or server restarts required. Flame stores all data in SQLite, making it a fully standalone deployment with minimal resource overhead.

Common Use Cases

Homelabbers use Flame as the default new-tab page pointing to their server, giving instant access to every self-hosted service from a single URL. System administrators deploy it as a private intranet portal, consolidating internal tools and documentation links for their team. Developers running multiple projects locally use Flame to track staging environments, API consoles, and monitoring dashboards in one place. Self-hosters use it as a bookmark manager that lives on their own infrastructure, replacing commercial tools like Raindrop or Pocket.

Key Features

• GUI editors for applications and bookmarks — add, edit, and delete without any config files
• Docker label integration for automatic app discovery from running containers
• Kubernetes ingress annotation support for cluster-aware dashboards
• Integrated search bar with 11 providers including Google, DuckDuckGo, and Bing
• 15 built-in colour themes plus a fully custom theme builder
• Custom CSS injection for advanced styling
• Weather widget with live conditions via Weather API
• Password-protected access with guest mode option
• Pin favourite applications to the top of the dashboard
• Offline-capable — all UI assets served locally, no CDN dependencies

Why deploy Flame on Hostinger VPS

Hosting Flame on your own VPS keeps your entire service directory and bookmarks private — no third-party service ever sees which tools you run or how your infrastructure is organised. A Hostinger VPS gives Flame the persistent storage and stable IP it needs to act as a reliable home base for all your self-hosted services. Because Flame integrates directly with the Docker daemon, running it on the same VPS as your other containers lets it auto-discover new deployments the moment they start, with no manual dashboard updates required.