Dropserver
An application platform for your personal web services.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Partly: no commits in 90 days, but v0.14.5 shipped in Jul 2026.
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At a glance
Dropserver quick facts
- Health score
- 43/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 93
- Last commit
- 4 months ago (Jul 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.14.5, Jul 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Dropserver scores 43/100, #21 of 28 in Self-hosting Solutions: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.14.5, 4 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 93 stars add 7.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.14.5 released 4 months ago
- Stars 7.9 / 20
93 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 7
- Last 12 months
- 4 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #21 of 28 tools in Self-hosting Solutions by health , between Nirvati (#20) and Sandstorm (#22) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Go, Deno |
| Latest release | v0.14.5 · 4 months ago |
| Stars | 93 |
| Open issues | 60 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | teleclimber/Dropserver ↗ |
Dropserver vs its top 5 alternatives
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| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umbrel | 96 | 12k | ⊘ Proprietary | 1 month ago |
| DietPi | 85 | 6.4k | GPL-2.0 | today |
| xsrv | 80 | 411 | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| HomelabOS | 67 | 1.3k | MIT | 2 months ago |
| OpenMediaVault | 60 | 7k | GPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| Dropserver (this tool) | 43 | 93 | Apache-2.0 | 4 months ago |
Dropserver: common questions
Is Dropserver still maintained?
Dropserver had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 4 months ago; the latest tagged release, v0.14.5, is from 4 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.