Self Host Blocks
Modular server management based on NixOS modules and focused on best practices.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 197 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.10.0 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
Self Host Blocks quick facts
- Health score
- 81/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 514
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.10.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Great care is taken to make the proposed stack robust. This translates into a test suite comprised of automated NixOS VM tests which includes playwright tests to verify some important workflow like logging in, SSO interation and full backup story."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Self Host Blocks scores 81/100, #9 of 28 in Self-hosting Solutions: 197 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.10.0, 11 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 514 stars add 10.8 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
197 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.10.0 released 11 days ago
- Stars 10.8 / 20
514 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 197
- Last 90 days
- 481
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #9 of 28 tools in Self-hosting Solutions by health , between Websoft9 (#8) and xsrv (#10) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Nix |
| Latest release | v0.10.0 · 11 days ago |
| Stars | 514 |
| Open issues | 111 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | ibizaman/selfhostblocks ↗ |
Self Host Blocks vs its top 5 alternatives
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| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umbrel | 96 | 12k | ⊘ Proprietary | 1 month ago |
| Cosmos | 95 | 6.2k | Apache-2.0 | 9 days ago |
| HomeButler | 90 | 313 | MIT | yesterday |
| DietPi | 85 | 6.4k | GPL-2.0 | today |
| YunoHost | 84 | 3k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Self Host Blocks (this tool) | 81 | 514 | AGPL-3.0 | today |
Self Host Blocks: common questions
Is Self Host Blocks still maintained?
Self Host Blocks had 197 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v0.10.0, is from 11 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.