go-ef by amallia

A Go implementation of the Elias-Fano encoding

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Verdict 34/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty

Self-host go-ef on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
34 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
41
9 forks

About go-ef

From the project's README at github.com/amallia/go-ef. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

[](https://travis-ci.org/amallia/go-ef) [](https://godoc.org/github.com/amallia/go-ef) [](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/amallia/go-ef) Example

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
52
maturity
30
community
17
security
70
sustainability
23
adoption
14

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 41 github.com/amallia/go-ef
GitHub forks 9 github.com/amallia/go-ef

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age8.6 yearssince Sep 2017
Last commit1.9 years agoJun 16, 2024

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

Ready to self-host go-ef?

Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.

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