Self-Hosted Backend Platforms

5 stacks for anyone who wants a backend-as-a-service you own end to end. Each one is a vanilla compose.yaml that runs locally with docker compose up, with a measured RAM footprint and a one-step deploy to Miget from $5/month flat.

#the stacks

Convex

experimental

Self-hosted Convex: the reactive backend (database + functions + scheduler) with its dashboard, on your infrastructure.

4 services 2.8 GiB RAM from $25/mo

Hasura

Instant GraphQL over Postgres - queries, mutations, live subscriptions - stateless and Apache-2.0.

2 services 2 GiB RAM from $13/mo

PocketBase

An entire backend in one container: SQLite, auth, realtime, file storage, and an admin UI. The simplest stack in the catalogue.

1 service 512 MiB RAM from $5/mo

Supabase

experimental

The full self-hosted Supabase stack - Postgres, Auth, REST, Realtime, Storage, Studio - behind one Kong gateway.

8 services 8 GiB RAM from $49/mo

Supabase Lite

The Supabase core - Postgres, Auth, and the REST API behind Kong - without the seven services most apps never touch. Fits a 2 GiB plan.

4 services 2 GiB RAM from $13/mo

#what each one needs

RAM and disk are what the compose file allocates, not guesses, and the plan is the smallest one that holds it. Databases and caches come managed and included on Miget rather than billed per instance.

StackServicesRAMDiskFits plan
Convex 4 2.8 GiB 10 GB $25/mo
Hasura 2 2 GiB 5 GB $13/mo
PocketBase 1 512 MiB 2 GB $5/mo
Supabase 8 8 GiB 20 GB $49/mo
Supabase Lite 4 2 GiB 8 GB $13/mo

Cost against the managed equivalents, per stack: Convex , Hasura , PocketBase , Supabase , Supabase Lite .

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140 stacks in total, from databases and queues to AI infrastructure - all MIT licensed, all runnable locally, all deployable in one step.

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