How much does it cost to self-host Opensourcepos?

Opensourcepos can be self-hosted starting at $4.13/mo on hetzner CAX11. Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk.

Is Opensourcepos actively maintained?

Opensourcepos has a composite health score of 80/100 across activity, maturity, community, security, sustainability, and adoption. See /methodology/ for the formula.

How hard is Opensourcepos to self-host?

Opensourcepos has a self-hosting difficulty score of 2/5 (1 = one-click, 5 = complex Kubernetes setup).

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Verdict 80/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty 13 open CVEs Last release 9 days ago

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Health score
 80 /100 
6-dim composite

Self-hosts from

$4.13 /mo

hetzner · CAX11

Difficulty

2 /5

Docker + read README

GitHub stars

4.2k

2.5k forks

About Opensourcepos

From the project's README at github.com/opensourcepos/opensourcepos. 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

maturity

100

community

security

sustainability

100

adoption

Adoption signals

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

Signal	Value	Source
GitHub stars	4.2k	github.com/opensourcepos/opensourcepos
GitHub forks	2.5k	github.com/opensourcepos/opensourcepos

Release & maintenance

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

Project age	12.5 years	since Nov 2013
Last commit	2 days ago	May 4, 2026
Releases shipped	28	last: 9 days ago
Security policy	SECURITY.md	declared by maintainers
Funding links	2	declared by maintainers

Self-hosting cost across providers

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

Provider	Plan	Specs	Monthly
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

15 known advisories tracked via OSV.dev. 13 currently open without a documented fix. Most recent: CVE-2026-32888.

What people say on Hacker News

The Lopsided Economics of Vulnerabilities
1 points · 0 comments · 2026
Linus's Law, but Vulnerabilities
4 points · 1 comments · 2026
Open source was never about trust
3 points · 0 comments · 2026
Eulogy for Open Source
4 points · 0 comments · 2026
Open Source Pledge
3 points · 0 comments · 2026

Ready to self-host Opensourcepos?

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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Data last refreshed May 7, 2026.

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