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cephvsrustypaste

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

cephrustypaste
Score78/10056/100
Rank in category#1 of 7 in Distributed Storage#32 of 86 in File Sharing
GitHub stars17 1781 214
Stars, last 30 days+109+7
Stable releases, 12 months03
Latest release—v0.18.1 · 7 Sept 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherMIT
Main languageCRust

Which one should you pick?

ceph scores 78/100 against 56/100 for rustypaste, so it is the safer default.

rustypaste ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for ceph.

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

ceph is growing faster right now (+109 stars in 30 days).

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