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etcdvsShellHub

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

etcdShellHub
Score83/10064/100
Rank in category#2 of 38 in Databases#12 of 23 in Remote Access
GitHub stars52 4322 243
Stars, last 30 days+122+175
Stable releases, 12 months129
Latest releasev3.7.3 · 22 Oct 2026v0.28.0 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageGoGo

Which one should you pick?

etcd scores 83/100 against 64/100 for ShellHub, so it is the safer default.

etcd ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 9 for ShellHub.

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