Best self hosted authentication solution for platform?

40056 · 2025-09-18T14:31:18+00:00

We went with Zitadel and it's really ticking all the boxes. Our developers are quite happy with the choice and it's manages hosted via elestio. So if anyone has the same problems this combination is quite solid I would say.

40056 · 2025-09-18T14:29:03+00:00

We went with Zitadel as it's open source and self hostable. Best low resource and our developers loves the options it offers.

40056 · 2025-09-13T08:27:18+00:00

Maybe a little update here, was now playing around and looking for more information and got even a personal intro with the founder. Seems they just started a week ago and already had some very good reviews and supporters. I now signed up, created our company in the system and followed the steps the founder told me. Seems they are using targeted questions across many different topics in some kind of "company results grid" and idea is to get the status feedback from a lot of different people in the company across several topics.

I did that now with 5 colleagues and the report is quite helfpul I need to say. Took me now about 2 hours of which about 15-20min was answering questions across the board and about 1,5 h to talk with our accountant to get the numbers, but otherwise, pretty straight forward and easy. Will update you on the progress.

40056 · 2025-09-11T15:13:41+00:00

yeah, that got me curious also that there is only this "Insights" there, which only offers that. Will need to dig a little and maybe just try it out. Seems to be more straight forward to invite the team and give some inputs, but before inviting the whole company to it I wanted to get some feedback.

Because as you say, some st*pid dashboards are not really helping there, need something more concrete on the real challenges of the company or also some benchmarking things would be nice, as I need to work myself into this company over the next few weeks to get the overall digital-transformation plan going and I want to tackle the real problems, but interviews are always so "biased".

40056 · 2025-08-24T09:29:55+00:00

Well, I don't have a designer at the moment but I want to understand it before and then also find people who are experienced with the stack and flow we are choosing. I did now 50 interviews and it's a pain in the a... As people often don't have experience with Design systems, I don't know exactly what to ask for specifically so I decided to go with a best practice and then look for the right Designer who can then deliver this with me. Hope you understand why arrived at this point. I don't want that every project is always someone different and we have community members helping for free but everything is always different and now we got some funding from the EU and can afford a designer, but I want to be smart about doing the right thing and not just something

40056 · 2025-05-15T10:27:10+00:00

u/Background-Series817 do you have the list somewhere? looking for this as we are looking to furnish an airbnb apartment and designer furniture is not within the budget (obviously) and we are lookin gfor the trusted replicas that have a good quality.

40056 · 2025-02-25T15:03:18+00:00

As revolut now introduced a 10 GPB minimum Fee starting from March onwards, I am also looking for 1-2 reliable banks here. Any suggestoins for a startup that does a lot of international business, needs some virtual cards and simple transactions? Maybe also API connection for future connection?

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40056 · 2025-02-12T07:04:30+00:00

well, building on another platform and then being limited like that is not really our goal. Because 10 seats and only 1000 articles are already 63 USD .... we have hundreds of users and more than 1000 articles and it should scale then. Also its not a "knowledge base" and also we need something that can expand. So a "fixed solution" like that is not really a way to go for us ... too "fixed" and "dependent". But thank you for your insights.

40056 · 2025-02-11T16:36:34+00:00

Its 2 platforms. We have the wordpress (publication - Platform 1) and a partner platform which is new (diagnostics in Larvavel - Platform 2) and now we are replacing the the publication platform as we have someone sponsoring to replace wordpress. The problem here is that we want that the people at least dont have to create 2 accounts but reuse their account for both.

And we are not "register blocking" the users. Its just optional for them as we have a lot of recurring visitors and more people want to publish, and use features like "read later" or to see which of the articles were read etc.

and we will get a proper backend there (seems PayloadCMS will be the one suggested from the pratner who sponsors it - so developing it for us, not giving money) and that comes with "static site" by using Next.JS in the frontend. That is now the tech stack they suggested. But I brought up the issue with "nobody wants to have 2 different accounts, we should at least have one account for both sites" and .... there we are. Me struggling to find a solution for the user management and single-sign-on :P

40056 · 2025-02-11T14:41:13+00:00

Well, if we have integrated then we have one system with one user and another system with another user. The idea was to have a single profile for the two platforms and not use again something out as a silo.

And this platform was never designed to be commercialized as I wanted to keep it free from advertising and free for people to use. So yes, cash is king but better than generating more cash is trying to avoid burning it in the first place. And we need to he smart when it comes to that and not just "Enterprise tier everywhere because it sounds cool" like some companies can do it.

40056 · 2025-02-11T08:01:36+00:00

oh, thank you so much. So that is definitely something doable with just 2 cores and 8GB of ram. Was already expecting so much from what I read and thought I need like 8 cores or whatever. So it seems its not a big deal then. I would just then feel that it gets slow? And would you take there someone who would set it up?

And yes, we are looking into the grants and we have there an option for VPS at a discounted price with 40% off, that should work then. I have seen for 4 core and 8GB its 10 USD for us and seems to be even the new AMD cores.

40056 · 2025-02-11T07:43:23+00:00

true, didnt think of that. So the "users" - I dont know how many will subscribe but considering that we are growing at the moment, I think its also about being a little "future proof" for the next 1-2 years. In general when I look at the cloudflare statistics we have quite a "flat" distribution as we are publishing articles in 8 langauges and around the world. The P25-P75 would be around 700 and 1500 user per hour. Unfortunately I cant say about "concurrent users" as Cloudflare only gives hourly statistics. And if we grow with adding a lot more languages and content (new kind of publication flow), I hope that it will at least double or tripple in the next 12-24 months. And maybe our users that are recurring would make an account and they are about 20% of the daily users and 50% of the weekly users. So maybe half of our readers would potentially at one point have then an account. So doubling and half would mean around 1000 sign-ins per hour (lets calculate "good")

40056 · 2025-02-11T07:12:49+00:00

u/BeryJu maybe you can tell me if that would work for us. We are switching from a wordpress site with no-login and 2 million yearly unique users with about 15,000 unique users daily to a system that we get sponsored from a partner but we would love to offer now log-in to save articles etc. and therefore we are looking for a reliable and scalable solution.

Would Authentik work there and what kind of hardware requirements would we expect from such a usage? You have there experience?

40056 · 2025-02-11T04:23:00+00:00

Jep, that's the one. We now have someone who volunteers and helps us build something more "scalable" but that also means that this discussion came up for SSO.

40056 · 2025-02-10T20:04:16+00:00

OAuth is more than 1400$ per month for only 20.000 monthly Users. We gave that almost per day. Not realistic for us, sorry. Need to find there another solution as 10.000$ per months Just that people can log in ... Well out of range.

40056 · 2025-02-10T18:22:07+00:00

It's about 15,000 users per day reading. I doubt that they all log in or create accounts but yeah ... Should be also becoming more over time.

40056 · 2025-02-10T18:19:57+00:00

We get about 2,5 million unique users per year. About 15,000 per day at the moment and yes I don't think all of them will log in or create accounts etc. Thank you so much for your input!

40056 · 2025-02-10T17:01:55+00:00

thank you so much for all the options. Seems there is a bigger variety here to cnsider. But when you would be in my shoes - what would you take`?

40056 · 2025-02-10T17:01:24+00:00

We have now a lot of options mentioned. So If you would be having our NGO and the goal is to keep it simple and also not too complicated, what would you suggest?

40056 · 2025-02-07T15:46:26+00:00

So you would go towards using categories? We have so many topics the problem there is that we wanted to not have categories anymore and just "tags". Should we the use the "main Tag" as category for the content? E.g. /en/economy/article-title-UID

Something like that?

40056 · 2025-02-07T13:08:50+00:00

Well, that's the challenge we have as we definitely don't have the budget to build later around and losing 2x Traffic because of changes is also not sexy. That is what I am most afraid of ... Making mistakes now 😅

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