Self-host Dashy

A personal dashboard for organising links to your self-hosted services, with status checks, widgets, themes and an in-browser config editor; the configuration is stored in a YAML file.

Key facts

What you need

• Any VPS with at least 256 MB of RAM
• A domain you control — most self-hosted setups need HTTPS in front of them
• Under an hour if you've used Docker before

Install

Run these commands on your server:

copy# Dashy
docker run -d --name dashy --restart=always \
  -p 8080:8080 -v "$(pwd)"/dashy-data:/app/user-data \
  lissy93/dashy:latest
# →  http://SERVER_IP:8080

Head-to-head

DashboardsSep 2026

DDashy

vs

Homepage

One conf.yml with an in-browser editor vs. YAML files and Docker label discovery.

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