what does self hosting actually mean? <https://sup...
# randome
echoing-computer-87366
09/30/2021, 4:34 PMwhat does self hosting actually mean? https://supertokens.io/pricing
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modern-table-48211
09/30/2021, 4:38 PMself host - to host it on your own. it means you get the application and you'll have to deploy/run/operate/maintain on your server
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echoing-computer-87366
09/30/2021, 5:46 PMok got it. So in case of self hosted I will have to deploy it on digitalOcean or linode or heroku somewhere like that right?
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modern-table-48211
09/30/2021, 6:36 PMYes
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echoing-computer-87366
10/01/2021, 7:28 AMI am building saas application and want to have admin users which will create regular users with some roles & permissions. So for this use case I checked okta and auth0 but they have limit on users so moved away from it. So I got 2 options (open source identity management)
1. https://supertokens.io/
2. https://www.ory.sh/kratos/docs/quickstart/
Have you used any of these?
echoing-computer-87366
10/01/2021, 7:30 AMI checked kartos but its docs are difficult for me to grasp 😅 I will have to spend some more time
echoing-computer-87366
10/01/2021, 7:43 AMAlso one more question is it difficult to manage self hosted
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modern-table-48211
10/01/2021, 7:50 AMhavent used either, okta and auth0 are pretty much the leading IDPs. Also auth0 was acquired by okta https://auth0.com/blog/okta-acquisition-announcement/
modern-table-48211
10/01/2021, 7:51 AMit difficult to manage self hostedit depends on what your definition of "difficult" is and whether the app has any stateful components - such had databases. In that case operating it becomes significantly much harder. Many believe installing and operating to be the same thing - installing is a tiny part, operating it definitely much more challenging due to the different and unpredictable ways in which things can break
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echoing-computer-87366
10/01/2021, 3:48 PMok got it