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hostingvsUltimate Certificate Manager

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

hostingUltimate Certificate Manager
Score27/10050/100
Rank in category#3 of 3 in Video Hosting#4 of 8 in Certificate Management
GitHub stars11170
Stars, last 30 days+0+0
Stable releases, 12 months04
Latest release—v2.246 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptPython

Which one should you pick?

Ultimate Certificate Manager scores 50/100 against 27/100 for hosting, so it is the safer default.

Ultimate Certificate Manager ships more often: 4 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for hosting.

If you want the quickest setup, Ultimate Certificate Manager is easier to run; hosting needs more configuration.

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