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danpalmer ◴[] No.41834089[source]
Reading the deployment information, there's an interesting tension here with applications that target self-hosting.

Deploying this requires running 5 different open source servers (databases, proxies, etc), and 5 different services that form part of this suite. If I were self-hosting this in a company I now need to be an expert in lots of different systems and potentially how to scale them, back them up, etc. The trade-offs to be made here are very different to when architecting a typical SaaS backend, where this sort of architecture might be fine.

I've been going through this myself with a hobby project. I'm designing it for self-hosting, and it's a radically different way of working to what I'm used to (operating services just for my company). I've been using SQLite and local disk storage so that there's essentially just 2 components to operate and scale – application replicas, and shared disk storage (which is easy to backup too). I'd rather be using Postgres, I'd rather be using numerous other services, background queue processors, etc, but each of those components is something that my users would need to understand, and therefore something to be minimised far more strictly than if it were just me/one team.

Huly looks like a great product, but I'm not sure I'd want to self-host.

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1. LorenDB ◴[] No.41840080[source]
I am a firm believer that any self-hosted app should require, at most, a docker-compose.yml and possibly a .env file to get a basic service up and running. Requiring me to clone your repo or run some script from your site doesn't inspire a lot of confidence that it will be easy to maintain and keep up to date, whereas if you provide a prebuilt Docker image, I know that I can always just pull the latest image and be up-to-date.
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2. hiatus ◴[] No.41840112[source]
That doesn't preempt the parent's concerns. If your docker-compose has a mongo container now I have to either self-host mongo or use atlas.