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No, not an idiot. I didn't use the best terms. I updated them to say "Web (frontend) hosting" which are my static files (the HTML, JS, CSS) which is deployed to Firebase Hosting and "Server (backend) hosting" which is my backend Python Flask web server which is deployed to Google Compute Engine (GCE).

So, the website files are hosted on Firebase while the backend is hosted on GCE. The database is actually not hosted; it's just a SQLite file stored on my GCE instance.

Firebase Hosting is a simple way to host frontend code, similar to (but a little easier than) using S3 to serve the frontend. Since the database is SQLite, it seems like the backend and DB are hosted on GCE.

I assumed the other way around. Firebase gives you the webpage, but when you send a query, it is sent to Compute Engine to calculate all the paths and sent back to the frontend to render.