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cephvsShellHub

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

cephShellHub
Score78/10064/100
Rank in category#1 of 7 in Distributed Storage#12 of 23 in Remote Access
GitHub stars17 1792 243
Stars, last 30 days+108+175
Stable releases, 12 months09
Latest release—v0.28.0 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Main languageCGo

Which one should you pick?

ceph scores 78/100 against 64/100 for ShellHub, so it is the safer default.

ShellHub ships more often: 9 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for ceph.

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

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