Explodingcamera Liwan by explodingcamera

liwan - Lightweight Analytics

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Verdict 51/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty Last release 7 days ago

Self-host Explodingcamera Liwan on hetzner for $4.13/mo and save approximately $130/year vs Fathom Analytics.

Health score
51 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
189
12 forks

About Explodingcamera Liwan

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

[](https://github.com/explodingcamera/liwan/pkgs/container/liwan) Features Quick setup\ Quickly get started with Liwan with a single, self-contained binary . No database or complex setup required. The tracking script is a single line of code that works with any website and less than 1KB in size. Privacy first\ Liwan respects your users’ privacy by default. No cookies, no cross-site tracking, no persistent identifiers. All data is stored on your server. Lightweight\ You can run Liwan on a cheap VPS, your old mac mini, or even a Raspberry Pi. Written in Rust and using tokio for async I/O, Liwan is fast and efficient. -

Health score breakdown

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

activity
56
maturity
70
community
61
security
70
sustainability
33
adoption
18

Adoption signals

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

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 189 github.com/explodingcamera/liwan
GitHub forks 12 github.com/explodingcamera/liwan

Release & maintenance

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

Project age2.0 yearssince Jun 2024
Last commit7 days agoJun 20, 2026
Releases shipped44last: 7 days ago

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 Jun 21, 2026.

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