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NGINXvsNginx-Reverse-Emby

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

NGINXNginx-Reverse-Emby
Score84/10047/100
Rank in category#2 of 12 in Web Servers#18 of 24 in Reverse Proxy
GitHub stars31 998191
Stars, last 30 days+277—
Stable releases, 12 months210
Latest releaserelease-1.31.8 · 21 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseBSD-2-ClauseGPL-3.0
Main languageCGo

Which one should you pick?

NGINX scores 84/100 against 47/100 for Nginx-Reverse-Emby, so it is the safer default.

NGINX ships more often: 21 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Nginx-Reverse-Emby.

NGINX is growing faster right now (+277 stars in 30 days).

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