Notes on self-hosting fleet software, running it white-label for your own customers, and migrating off a per-vehicle platform.https://routly.app/en-gbhttps://routly.app/blog/navixy-alternative/https://routly.app/blog/navixy-alternative/Both let a provider run a fleet platform under their own brand. Navixy licenses you a product; Routly gives you the source. When each is the better trade.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcomparisonsnavixywhite-labelcomparisonhttps://routly.app/blog/self-hosted-fleet-platforms-compared/https://routly.app/blog/self-hosted-fleet-platforms-compared/Traccar, OpenGTS, Fleetbase, Wialon Local and Routly. What each is for, the licence, the stack, and the one question that eliminates three of them for you.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcomparisonsopen-sourceself-hostingtraccarfleetbasehttps://routly.app/blog/agpl-for-business/https://routly.app/blog/agpl-for-business/Section 13 in plain terms: what triggers the obligation, what does not, and the four situations where a commercial licence is the answer instead.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcomplianceagpllicensingprocurementhttps://routly.app/blog/driver-scoring/https://routly.app/blog/driver-scoring/Ten thousand harsh-braking events change nothing. A ranked list does. The weights we use, why fuel dominates them, and what a score must never be used for.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTengineeringdriver-behaviourscoringeco-drivinghttps://routly.app/blog/fleet-kpi-that-matter/https://routly.app/blog/fleet-kpi-that-matter/Most fleet dashboards measure what is easy. These six change decisions, with what each is really telling you and the trap that comes with it.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMToperationskpireportingoperationshttps://routly.app/blog/fleet-software-tco/https://routly.app/blog/fleet-software-tco/A worksheet, not an argument: subscription against self-hosting, including the install and integration costs the per-vehicle price leaves out.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTself-hostingcoststcoprocurementhttps://routly.app/blog/fleetbase-alternative/https://routly.app/blog/fleetbase-alternative/Both are AGPL-3.0 and self-hostable, and they answer different questions. Fleetbase is logistics operations; Routly is fleet telemetry and what you sell on top.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcomparisonsfleetbaseopen-sourcecomparisonhttps://routly.app/blog/flespi-to-your-own-database/https://routly.app/blog/flespi-to-your-own-database/Flespi buffers parsed telemetry for 30 days. If you want it to keep it, and to query it yourself, you need somewhere to put it. The options and the trade-offs.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTmigrationflespimqttstorageingesthttps://routly.app/blog/fuel-drain-detection/https://routly.app/blog/fuel-drain-detection/The difference between a drain and a shift of ordinary burn is a rate of change. The thresholds we use, the false positives they cause, and how to tune them.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTengineeringfueldetectionthresholdshttps://routly.app/blog/gdpr-vehicle-tracking/https://routly.app/blog/gdpr-vehicle-tracking/Location data about a named driver is personal data. The legal basis you need, why consent rarely works, the out-of-hours rule, and what to put in the notice.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcompliancegdprprivacydrivershttps://routly.app/blog/self-hosted-fleet-management/https://routly.app/blog/self-hosted-fleet-management/What it takes to run fleet management on your own servers: the components, the operational load, the cost against per-vehicle SaaS, and when not to.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTself-hostingself-hostingcostsmigrationhttps://routly.app/blog/telemetry-storage-clickhouse/https://routly.app/blog/telemetry-storage-clickhouse/Why positions live in ClickHouse and everything else in Postgres, which codec goes on which column, what we measured, and where ClickHouse is the wrong choice.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTengineeringclickhousepostgresqlschemastoragehttps://routly.app/blog/traccar-alternative/https://routly.app/blog/traccar-alternative/Traccar decodes the devices; Routly is the part your customer sees. When Traccar alone is enough, what Routly adds, and how to run both instead.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcomparisonstraccaringestopen-sourcehttps://routly.app/blog/traccar-scaling/https://routly.app/blog/traccar-scaling/Where Traccar starts to hurt at scale, what the community actually reports, the tuning that helps, and when to split ingest from the application layer.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTengineeringtraccarscalingoperationshttps://routly.app/blog/white-label-fleet-software/https://routly.app/blog/white-label-fleet-software/Host a fleet platform for your own customers under your own name: isolated organisations, per-customer report branding, and a licence that permits reselling.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTwhite-labelwhite-labelmulti-tenancylicensinghttps://routly.app/blog/wialon-migration-retranslator/https://routly.app/blog/wialon-migration-retranslator/The Wialon retranslator forwards live telemetry to a second system while Wialon keeps running. The migration path, with no device reconfigured.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTmigrationwialonflespimigrationretranslator