Umbrel
Self-hosting Solutions
A beautiful personal server OS for self-hosting. Install on a Raspberry Pi 4 or Ubuntu/Debian.
Actively maintained
⊘ Proprietary
Minimal Debian OS optimized for single-board computers, which allows you to easily install and manage several services for selfhosting at home.
DietPi is an open-source self-hosting solutions project, with 6.2k GitHub stars and a health score of 97/100. It committed 864 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: GPL-2.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.
| Status | Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-08-15 |
| Days since last commit | 2 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 129 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 864 |
| Months with activity | 12 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-08-08 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Category | Self-hosting Solutions |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
DietPi is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.
The clearest opening in the dataset. Low open-source competition usually means either a genuinely underserved need or a market too small to attract volunteers — validate demand before assuming the former.
Actively maintained. DietPi recorded 864 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 129 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-15. Last release: 2026-08-08. Committed within the last 45 days.
DietPi is published under GPL-2.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
27 open-source implementations, 8 of them actively maintained, led by Umbrel at 12k stars. Saturation score 37/100 — Open. Thin or poorly maintained open-source coverage.
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