play-with-docker VS Appwrite

I cannot download the file onto the machine because i am doing it with a play-with-docker.com instance online so no direct access to the machine.

Maybe you don't have local admin, or maybe your machine doesn't have enough resources. Well, the best free option here is to use play-with-docker.com, which will run one or more Docker instances inside your browser, and give you a terminal to use it with. You can create multiple machines on it, and even use the URL to share the session with others in a sort of collaborative experience. I highly recommend you check it out. Most of the lectures in this course can be used with "PWD", but the big limitation is it'll reset after 4 hours, at which time it'll delete your servers.

Also, they definitely aren't interested in an alternative approach. :/ https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/issues/364

I'm Currently building a Website with Next Js Frontend & Appwrite Backend(https://appwrite.io/). My website Would have 100 Concurrent users reading and Writing to the Database like Blogs with comments.

Firebase comes with a lot of advantages, one of them is ease of integration and their generous free tier, you can change the backend later down the road but if you think this unfeasible or worry about vendor lock in then you can take a look at open source alternatives like supabase or appwrite , supabase offers a postgres database while appwrite (iirc) has a nosql wrapper around mariadb.

Appwrite being an open-source company has its vision rooted to giving back to the community. We know the hurdles faced by a project maintainer and want to solve at least one - the fund. Be it for the project, better features or maintaining the community every little thing requires some funding and to help reduce that Appwrite gives an opportunity to its employees to pick and sponsor an open-source project/maintainer for one year.

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You can self-host Appwrite which has functions https://appwrite.io/

Checkout https://appwrite.io. It's a rather good replacement for firebase at this point.

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A selfhost alternative I want to check out eventually is Appwrite (https://appwrite.io/) but until now I did not find the time to do so.