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by danr4 743 days ago
That’s a pet peeve of mine so I’ll chime in.

I’ve actually used it self hosted pretty much since posthog launched and moved to their cloud after a couple years. Our product blew up and it was difficult to scale, as well as a few hosted only features that we needed (by then we raised and could afford it).

I also contributed code (and got some swag) which was promptly merged.

They’ve also open sourced how they run the company and onboarding (similar to GitLab).

All in all I think posthog is one of the most balanced open source product in the market, in terms of the easiness of self hosting, the feature set, the engineering culture, openness and business model.

If you don’t have a lot of traffic self hosted is excellent and can take you very far.
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mrj 743 days ago
I tried to self-host recently and there was a lot of brokenness, and they discontinued the helm chart. They clearly don't want you to actually self host anymore and it's a shame. I have security requirements and can't yet afford their security-approved cloud product.
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timgl 743 days ago
What was broken? Part of discontinuing the helm chart was putting more effort into supporting the docker compose deployment so we’d love to fix this!
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portaouflop 743 days ago
Maintaining a helm chart is a non-zero amount of work - why do you think this should be provided for you?
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mrj 741 days ago
That's not what I said. They did offer it, then removed it after I had made the decision to use them partly based on the Open Source self-hosting nature of the project. They used Open Source to bait and switch me.

I don't even need helm support, I'm fine to do my own. But they stopped even providing versioned releases so there's no stable tag or branch to build and target. That's actively hostile to anybody not spending their full day managing Posthog stuff.

I had planned on switching to the cloud Posthog when we got big enough, but it seems like we will have to start out with other options and it'll be much harder to change that later.

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danr4 743 days ago
yeah it's been a while since I ran it, might have changed course (wouldn't surprise me)
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