Websoft9
GitOps-driven, multi-application hosting for cloud servers and home servers, one-click deployment of 200+ open source apps.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 59% of tracked projects; popularity more than 51%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 2.1k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 2.4.2 · 23 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 23 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | LGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Shell, Python |
Is Websoft9 actively maintained?
Websoft9 is under active development: 416 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 104 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 721% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, 2.4.2, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Note that Websoft9 depends on a third-party service to work fully. It is self-hosted, but not self-contained: if that external service changes its terms or disappears, your instance is affected.
Of the 28 projects we track in Self-hosting Solutions, Websoft9 ranks #3 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Websoft9 actually does
Websoft9 is a GitOps-driven hosting platform designed for cloud and home servers. It facilitates the single-click deployment of over two hundred open source applications.
Best fit: Users who want to manage multiple open source applications on a single server without manual configuration for each service.
Worth knowing: The platform relies on shell scripts and Python under the hood, which may complicate debugging when underlying automation scripts fail.
Deployment notes
You will typically need to ensure persistent storage volumes are configured for the managed applications and set up a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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