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hostingvsusque

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

hostingusque
Score27/10053/100
Rank in category#3 of 3 in Video Hosting#29 of 56 in VPN
GitHub stars111 505
Stars, last 30 days+0—
Stable releases, 12 months09
Latest release—v4.2.1 · 20 Jul 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageJavaScriptGo

Which one should you pick?

usque scores 53/100 against 27/100 for hosting, so it is the safer default.

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

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

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