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by patwolf 70 days ago
I'm currently working on an app that needs offline support, and I wish I had something like this when I started.

One of our requirements though is to be able to completely host in our own infrastructure. I know this is open source, but it would be nice if there was a simple path to self hosting.
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nezaj 70 days ago
PR in progress!

https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/2495

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jauntywundrkind 69 days ago
I'm confused by the messaging that instantdb has been open source... but we haven't been able to host it? What's the story here, and what's the change happening here?
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alecthomas 69 days ago
From skimming the linked PR it looks like it's all been open source, but has been tightly coupled to their deployed instance. The PR appears to be decoupling things completely by making all hard coded values configurable.
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nezaj 69 days ago
Always been able to host it! We’ve had docker compose instructions since open sourcing.

Instant has evolved quite a bit in the last 18 months. With all the new functionality self-hosting has become a bit more fiddly.

This PR is aimed at making the process for self-hosting even easier.

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