Dromara Carbon by dromara

A simple, semantic and developer-friendly time package for golang

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Verdict 71/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty Last release 3 months ago

Self-host Dromara Carbon on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
71 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
5.2k
262 forks

About Dromara Carbon

From the project's README at github.com/dromara/carbon. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

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Health score breakdown

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

activity
57
maturity
100
community
93
security
70
sustainability
88
adoption
32

Adoption signals

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

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 5.2k github.com/dromara/carbon
GitHub forks 262 github.com/dromara/carbon

Release & maintenance

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

Project age5.7 yearssince Sep 2020
Last commit26 days agoApr 11, 2026
Releases shipped117last: 3 months ago
Funding links2declared by maintainers

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 →

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

Data last refreshed May 7, 2026.

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