Pain point · Self-hosting & upgrades · Blocks work
Self-hosted PostHog needs five backing services, too heavy for a small site
1 source thread · first seen 2022-01
Summary
A user wanting a lightweight analytics tool for about 10K visitors a day found PostHog requires Postgres, Redis, ClickHouse, ZooKeeper and Kafka, and worried about the resource use.
- Affects
- small self-hoster
Evidence
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“it's the amount of resources used that is concerning, and given my very modest requirements I was hoping for something very light”