Coffey Labs
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Built to be run, not rented.

Mail, VPN, logs: the software everything else quietly depends on. We build it to run on your own hardware, publish every line of it, and keep nothing locked behind a paid tier.

Self-hostedCopyleft licensedNo paid tier
How we work

What we won’t compromise on

The short list that shapes everything we ship.

Open it at 3 a.m.

When something breaks, you open the file that misbehaved. Not a support ticket.

No locked doors

No premium edition, no license key, no “contact sales” for the good parts.

Less to babysit

Our tools should take work off your plate, not hand you one more thing to run.

We run it first

Everything here started on our own servers, and it still runs there today.

How these turn up in the code →
Licensing

Copyleft, by default

Everything we start is GPLv3 or AGPLv3, and a fork keeps its upstream’s license so fixes can flow back. No source-available licenses, no license keys, no edition with more in it than yours.

AGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Every project’s license →
The company · since 2018

Coffey Labs started in 2018 as LINUXexpert.org. Today it is Coffey Labs LLC, an Arizona company that owns and maintains every project on this site. We sell nothing today.

I started these projects to fix problems on machines I run, and kept publishing them because a problem worth solving once is usually someone else’s too.

John CoffeyFounder, Coffey Labs

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