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hestiavspidoors

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

hestiapidoors
Score68/10036/100
Rank in category#2 of 10 in Control Panel#69 of 78 in Security
GitHub stars4 55426
Stars, last 30 days+49+0
Stable releases, 12 months1119
Latest release1.10.5 · 14 Sept 2026v0.4.11 · 12 Sept 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseGPL-3.0—
Main languageShellPHP

Which one should you pick?

hestia scores 68/100 against 36/100 for pidoors, so it is the safer default.

pidoors ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 11 for hestia.

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

hestia is growing faster right now (+49 stars in 30 days).

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