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CasaOSvsnginx-love

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

CasaOSnginx-love
Score76/10050/100
Rank in category#1 of 22 in Home Server#3 of 3 in Web Application Firewall
GitHub stars37 394312
Stars, last 30 days+135+0
Stable releases, 12 months01
Latest release—v4.01 · 31 Oct 2025
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageGoTypescript

Which one should you pick?

CasaOS scores 76/100 against 50/100 for nginx-love, so it is the safer default.

nginx-love ships more often: 1 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for CasaOS.

If you want the quickest setup, CasaOS is easier to run; nginx-love needs more configuration.

CasaOS is growing faster right now (+135 stars in 30 days).

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