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cephvsThesys

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

cephThesys
Score78/10041/100
Rank in category#1 of 7 in Distributed Storage#5 of 5 in Research
GitHub stars17 178177
Stars, last 30 days+107+0
Stable releases, 12 months05
Latest release—v0.4.0 · 23 Sept 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageCTypescript

Which one should you pick?

ceph scores 78/100 against 41/100 for Thesys, so it is the safer default.

Thesys ships more often: 5 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for ceph.

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

ceph is growing faster right now (+107 stars in 30 days).

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