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Technitium DNS Servervswebstudio

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

Technitium DNS Serverwebstudio
Score77/10069/100
Rank in category#3 of 41 in DNS#1 of 6 in Website Builder
GitHub stars10 2499 122
Stars, last 30 days+261+142
Stable releases, 12 months1158
Latest releasev15.6.2 · 17 Oct 20260.308.0 · 26 Oct 2026
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageCTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Technitium DNS Server scores 77/100 against 69/100 for webstudio, so it is the safer default.

webstudio ships more often: 58 stable releases in the past year, against 11 for Technitium DNS Server.

If you want the quickest setup, Technitium DNS Server is easier to run; webstudio needs more configuration.

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