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This looks great! How easy is it to self host Supabase? Is it more like "we're open-source, but good luck getting this deployed!", or can someone really build on Supabase and if things get a little too expensive it's easy enough to self-host the whole thing and just switch over? I wonder if people are doing that.

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self-hosting docs are here: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/self-hosting/docker

And a 5-min demo video with Digital Ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqiQKRKsfZE&embeds_referring...

Anyone who is familiar with basic server management skills will have no problem self-hosting. every tool in the supabase stack[0] is a docker image and works in isolation. If you just want to use this Storage Engine, it's on docker-hub (supabase/storage-api). Example with MinIO: https://github.com/supabase/storage/blob/master/docker-compo...

[0] architecture: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/getting-started/architectur...

I was pretty unhappy with the self hosted offering. It’s neutered compared to the cloud, which was disappointing.

> neutered

Can you share more? There is nothing missing, it’s all the same code that we run in production (besides some login changes to keep it decoupled from the platform)

From top of my head: reports and multiple projects. Also I kept getting weird "fetch failed" errors when creating rules or adding users from gui working behind reverse proxy so I gave up on the end.

Sure. I wouldn't quite agree with you that "there is nothing missing" though.

https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/4444 https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/4421

thanks for the links

> https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/4444

This discussion is about configuration: self-hosters configure configure their services in code[0], using .env vars / docker-compose.yml and should be checking it into source control. Self-hosters are not missing any functionality - the opposite actually: we have a subset of configuration items available on the platform

I get that it's different to the platform, but it's (IMO) the more "correct" way - all configuration should be version controlled

> https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/4421

This one is about Auth providers. They are also configuration: https://github.com/supabase/auth?tab=readme-ov-file#configur...

[0] Configuration in code: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/self-hosting/docker#configu...

[1] Terraform: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/terraform

(FYI: I saw a deleted comment that this requires a restart: the same is true on the platform)

I believe that the self hosted version is missing auth hooks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Supabase/comments/1bpaq9w/comment/k...

Following...

i believe the docker image ID on the docker-compose hasn’t been updated to the latest stable version. I’ll make a PR later when I’m at my computer (or anyone else is welcome to and I can review/merge)

Awesome, thanks for following up and for making a great product!

I checked with the team - it was already in the self-hosted version.

There are some guides for using this in the CLI docs:

https://supabase.com/docs/guides/auth/auth-hooks#local-devel...

(I'll find a way to consolidate these docs so the work across CLI + docker-compose)

Some may disagree but in my experience Supabase was definitely challenging to selfhost. Don't get me wrong; I'm pretty confident with selfhosting but Supabase was definitely on the hard side.

Pocketbase being literally single-binary doesn't make Supabase look good either, although funtionalities differ.

Yes, we have a vastly different architecture[0] from Pocketbase. We choose individual tools based on their scaling characteristics and give you the flexibility to add/remove tools as you see fit.

I doubt we can ever squeeze the "supabase stack" into a single binary. This undoubtedly makes things more difficult for self-hosters. Just self-hosting Postgres can be a challenge for many. We will trying to make it easier, but it will never be as simple as Pocketbase.

[0] https://supabase.com/docs/guides/getting-started/architectur...

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