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cephvsnginx-love

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

cephnginx-love
Score78/10050/100
Rank in category#1 of 7 in Distributed Storage#3 of 3 in Web Application Firewall
GitHub stars17 179312
Stars, last 30 days+110—
Stable releases, 12 months01
Latest release—v4.01 · 31 Oct 2025
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Main languageCTypescript

Which one should you pick?

ceph scores 78/100 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 ceph.

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

ceph is growing faster right now (+110 stars in 30 days).

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