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I'm a very happy self-hosted Plausible user for years now. Solid, simple, and easy to maintain.

How are you self hosting it? I find its requirements extremely heavy for a simple analytics solution. It requires a PostgreSQL and Clickhouse database. I don't find self hosting Clickhouse particularly easy. Wish they had an option to just use SQLite as an alternative.

I completely agree that the self-hosting story for Plausible is overkill for most websites.

So much so that I made my own that focuses on self-hostability using SQLite and DuckDB (no external dependencies, can run on a 256MB VM): https://github.com/medama-io/medama

This looks really nice, I am going to give it a try straight away!

I use the docker-compose setup they provide. There are only two containers iirc, Clickhouse and their web server.

Stuck it behind a NGINX frontend and it works just fine.

Did you use the hosted version, too? I wonder if it is possible to seamlessly switch between hosted and self-hosted.

I've not tried their hosted version no. I doubt that there would be a seamless way to switch between them since all the data lives in Clickhouse, but I could be wrong.

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