Disclaimer for open-source self-hosted PostHog

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Self-hosted open-source deployment is made for hobbyists or hosting PostHog in weird and wonderful ways (like in your basement).

It's MIT licensed and provided without guarantee. You should be confident in your security knowledge to run it. Everything runs on a single machine, and thus is unlikely to scale past a couple 100ks events without significant effort in scaling. As a small team we can only provide limited support for open-source PostHog.

For most companies we'd recommend PostHog Cloud, which comes with a very generous free tier.

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Community questions

  • nie
    a year ago

    unlikely to handle >100k events?

    Wait what?

    "It is unlikely to handle >100k events/month with a high risk of data loss."

    This looks like anti-advertising the PostHog product. Please explain why self hosted would handle so little events and with risk of data loss?

    • Marcus
      a year ago

      Hey, since our self-hosted instance is focused torwards hobbyists, it is not optimized to scale in favor of being easily deployable. If you need to handle more events we'd recommend PostHog Cloud.

  • Zolero
    2 years ago

    Why is a MIT licensed Self-Hosted limited to only 1 project.

    From my view a MIT licensed Self-Hosted project you are free to use, modify and use it commercially. So how is it possible it's limited to only one project. I don't understand that? Could you explain this to me?

    • Michael
      2 years ago

      Hey! We follow an open core model, so the core of PostHog is free and open source – you can use it and fork it freely as a hobbyist. However, team-oriented features are paid, so that we can continue to develop the product. :) Multiple projects are far more useful to companies than to hobbyists, so that's one such feature.

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