selfhost.directory

The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.

LXDvsweb-check

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

LXDweb-check
Score70/10081/100
Rank in category#3 of 15 in Virtualization#1 of 3 in OSINT
GitHub stars4 84435 280
Stars, last 30 days+13+373
Stable releases, 12 months193
Latest releaselxd-6.10.1 · 28 Oct 20262.3.0 · 2 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageGoTypescript

Which one should you pick?

web-check scores 81/100 against 70/100 for LXD, so it is the safer default.

LXD ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for web-check.

web-check is growing faster right now (+373 stars in 30 days).

Swap a project

Keep LXD, compare it with
Keep web-check, compare it with