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Good question! We've found that PostHog Cloud is far and away the best experience for the vast majority of our users. However, some people still want to self-host, and we're here for that! Here's a quick flow chart to help you understand if self-hosting PostHog is for you:

```mermaid
flowchart TD
start["What makes you interested in <br/>self-hosting PostHog?"] --> diehard["I'm a die-hard self-hoster"] & privacy["I have data privacy requirements / desires"] & worried["I'm worried about cost"]
diehard --> B["Do you expect to ingest more than 300k events, 1k recordings, 300k /decide API calls into the instance?"]
worried --> events["Will you have more than 1M events, 5k recordings etc per month?"]
events -- No --> cloud_free["`PostHog Cloud is free for 1M events,
5k recordings, 250 surveys,
and more every single month.
See posthog.com/pricing for more.`"]
cloud_free --> better_cloud["You'll probably be better off with PostHog Cloud"]
privacy --> gdpr["PostHog Cloud has both EU and US regions for GDPR and BAAs available for HIPPA-compliant companies."]
gdpr -- Cool --> better_cloud
B -- Yes --> infra["Is managing infrastructure one of your core competencies?"]
B -- No --> risk["Are you okay with accepting the risk for potential data loss? (we have no guarantees for self-hosted instances)"]
infra -- No --> better_cloud
events -- Yes --> pricing["Have you compared the pricing for your anticipated volume vs the cost of a devops engineer's time?"]
pricing -- "Yes, and it's cheaper to do this in-house" --> doubt["We've literally never seen this math work out. However..."]
doubt --> infra
gdpr -- It's something else --> other_privacy["We host lots of companies with privacy needs, feel free to send a message with your requirements and we can go from there."]
other_privacy --> better_cloud
pricing -- No --> calculator["Use the calculator on posthog.com/pricing, then come back"]
calculator -- "Going back to this question..." --> pricing
pricing -- "Yes, and it's cheaper to use PostHog Cloud" --> cloud_cheaper["Because we spread the cost of managing infra across all our customers, PostHog Cloud is usually far cheaper than doing it yourself!"]
cloud_cheaper --> better_cloud
infra -- Yes --> risk
risk -- Yes --> support["We don't offer customer support for product, infrastructure, or other questions for self-hosted instances. That alright with you?"]
support -- No --> better_cloud
support -- Yes --> features["Are you cool with just using the features that are available on the free plan? All paid-plan features are Cloud-only."]
features -- Yep --> try_it["Feel free to give PostHog self-hosting a try!"]
features -- No --> better_cloud
risk -- No --> better_cloud
classDef default fill:#f9f9f9,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
classDef decision fill:#e9f2ff,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
classDef endpoint fill:#f0f0f0,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
class diehard,privacy,worried,better_cloud,risk,support,try_it decision
class cloud_free,cloud_cheaper endpoint
```
![flowchart for deciding if to self-host posthog](https://res.cloudinary.com/dmukukwp6/image/upload/flowchart_ae48a9fc3a.png)

You can follow the rest of the guide for instructions on how to set up self-hosted PostHog. If you want to use Cloud instead, you can sign up for our
[US](https://us.posthog.com/signup) or [EU](https://eu.posthog.com/signup) cloud instance.
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