| Posthog is pretty good but very pushy towards using their SaaS (understandably). Self hosting is not really advertised on their main site however is buried in their gh repo as a footnote [1] with indications of vague issues past 100K events/month. Haven’t delved into how to scale it past that though and they do provide some docs that I have yet to review. Also the primary repo is not FOSS, and that "100% FOSS" repo is buried in yet another footnote [2]. Plausible follows in PH footsteps but is not fully faithful to open source. If you want to self host, you won’t have same set of features as their SaaS and need to rely on long term releases for their "community edition" [3] On "Ahrefs", is there even an open source version of their product? I couldn’t easily find it (on mobile). [4] Maybe I’ll take a look at others you mentioned later but if rybbit can remain faithful to their FOSS roots then I think there’s a real chance of it becoming huge. For thosw that don’t want to self host (mostly corporate shitholes), rybbit can milk them with their managed SaaS product. [1] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog?tab=readme-ov-file#self-h... [2] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog?tab=readme-ov-file#open-s... [3] https://github.com/plausible/analytics?tab=readme-ov-file#ca... [4] https://ahrefs.com/ |
I tried to self host Posthog for my other project as it far exceeded even the generous free tier. I have a Hetzner bare metal server with 64gb of ram https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax42/ and it was running all 16 cores at 100% and didn't end up working. So I think Posthog's stack is just way too heavy to self host effectively, and it's just not in the same category as Plausible, Umami, or Rybbit.
I'm trying to build best OSS analytics out there - and even though it's super crowded, most non-trivial websites run one so there is space for everyone to survive in.