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For a client project, hosted or self-hosted is a decision about duties, not taste. Six questions about data location, restore, patching, handover and exit, with the honest cases on each side.
Extensions let PostgreSQL handle case-insensitive text, fuzzy search, UUIDs and spatial queries without application code. What each is for, when it is the wrong tool, and why your host decides what you can install.
A backup is a claim and a restore is the evidence. Here is a routine a small team can keep: where copies live, how often they run, how to rehearse a restore on a scratch database, what to check, and how to record it.
Most leaked credentials were never hidden well: they were committed, pasted, logged or shipped to the browser. The practical rules that keep them out, and how to rotate one that got through.
Running your own PostgreSQL is reasonable for a side project and a real commitment for a business. The software is the same; the duties are not.
Supabase can cost nothing hosted, locally or on your own server, but each option asks for something different. Here are the real limits, the self-hosting work, and how PocketBase, Appwrite and Nhost compare.
A local Supabase reset takes seconds and discards everything that is not in a migration. Here is what a dump does and does not contain, and a routine you can restore.
A second local Supabase project collides on the same ports, and hand-offset ports drift away from your app config. See what the CLI now assigns and what it costs.
A schema change belongs in a file that every environment applies the same way. Here is how Supabase migrations are created, applied, reset and reviewed, and why a change made in Studio is not one yet.
A shared browser profile puts every client session in one cookie jar, under extensions that can read them all. Here is what a stolen session grants, and what real isolation means.
A router gives you one key, one bill and many models. A direct API gives you one contract and fewer parties. See how OpenRouter, OpenCode, Command Code and a local gateway differ, checked 4 October 2026.
OpenCode Go costs $10 a month, Command Code starts at $1 with a $10 GOAT plan, and Charm Hyper (called HyperCharm in some tools) sells credits. Prices, limits and caveats as of 4 October 2026.
The best open weight coding models on 4 October 2026, ranked with dated scores, licences, hardware needs and Claude Code setup for local and hosted use.
Claude Code with other models works through ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, either directly or via an LLM gateway. Here is the setup, tier routing, fallbacks and what you give up.
A git-based CMS keeps content as files in Git, so your site needs no database. See how danubelabs.net works, what the limits are and who it suits.
Claude Code keeps session history as JSONL files and deletes them after 30 days by default. Learn where they live, how to change cleanupPeriodDays, fix a broken resume and archive everything.
Give every Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, Supabase or Gmail account its own isolated browser session and you can switch without logging out. Here are the options, the security trade-offs and the rules to check.
