What is My Own Suite?
My Own Suite (MOS) turns one machine — a cloud server or a computer at home — into your own private cloud. You get the everyday conveniences you are used to from Google, Apple, and Microsoft — file sync, photo backup, document editing, passwords, calendars — but running on hardware you control, with data that never leaves your possession.
It is free, open source, and built entirely from respected open-source applications. My Own Suite’s job is to make them work together as one coherent suite:
- One installer sets up the whole platform on a fresh machine — no Linux experience required.
- One dashboard (your Homepage) gives you and your family a single front door to all your apps.
- One control room (Suite Manager) lets you install apps from a catalog, connect them to each other, back everything up, and keep both the platform and each app updated — all from the browser, in plain language.
Apps update independently of MOS itself, so a fix for one app never waits on a MOS release, and each app runs from a verified copy of the exact package it was installed with — nothing changes under you. And every catalog app is privacy-assessed before it’s added, so you get the grade and the evidence, not just our word.
You should not need to understand Docker, YAML, reverse proxies, or certificates just to own your data. And if you do understand those things, everything underneath is inspectable, pinned, and documented — see Under the hood.
Is it for me?
Section titled “Is it for me?”My Own Suite is built for two kinds of people at once:
- You want out of Big Tech, but you’re not technical. The guides in these docs assume nothing. Every step is written out, defaults are safe, and the suite explains itself in plain language as you use it.
- You love self-hosting and homelabs. MOS gives you a curated, reproducible platform: digest-pinned images, a strict privilege boundary between the web UI and the host, manifest-driven app packages, a signed app catalog your server verifies against a key it already holds, immutable installed snapshots, transactional per-app updates, and honest documentation of how it all works. Bring your own package from a repository if the catalog doesn’t have it — MOS will tell you exactly what you’re trusting.