Idno: a social publishing platform by idno

A social publishing platform.

phpsocial-networkcmscms-frameworkindieweb
Verdict 73/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty Last release 2 months ago

Self-host Idno: a social publishing platform on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
73 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
1.1k
197 forks

About Idno: a social publishing platform

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

Idno is under active development and requires PHP 8.3+ with selected extensions, together with a supported database backend. You can find detailed installation instructions here: Installing from packages

Unofficial install packages, which are periodically built from the latest code, are available: Installing from Github

You can opt to check out the work-in-progress development code from the git repository:

Check out the repo: Fetch dependencies: Installing with composer

Health score breakdown

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

activity
72
maturity
100
community
92
security
85
sustainability
65
adoption
28

Adoption signals

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

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 1.1k github.com/idno/idno
GitHub forks 197 github.com/idno/idno

Release & maintenance

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

Project age13.3 yearssince Jan 2013
Last commit24 days agoApr 13, 2026
Releases shipped29last: 2 months ago
Security policySECURITY.mddeclared 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 →

Security advisories

3 known advisories tracked via OSV.dev. Most recent: CVE-2026-28508.

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