Plausible (Analytics Platform)
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Cloudron App Package for Plausible Analytics Released
Hello everyone! Final update for the year of 2023. I have finished writing the initial documentation for my plausible app package, and I am now releasing the git repository for public testing. You may find the link to it below:Please note that the plausible-app package depends upon pre-built Ubuntu binaries. These un-official binaries are built directly from the upstream source at Plausible Analytics, are are compiled automatically using Github Actions. You may find the build environment used to build these binaries below:
Please be advised that while the app package works, it has not been extensively tested. This app package is not ready for production use, and using it may incurr data loss.
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@girish I've released the beta app package for plausible. Please let me know if you have any feedback: this app package is still very much a work in progress, and I hope to improve it, particularly in regards to the database backup concerns that you outlined earlier.
In particular, I hope to work with you to create a Clickbase addon so we can support Clickbase natively within Cloudron. I think this might be the best way forwards to take care of the backups issue.
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@Sydney thanks for the work and notes on clickhouse! For addons, I think it's best that we do the work instead of getting this contributed. Mostly because of issues around Cloudron licensing (copyright assignment) and as well as writing tests etc which is not straightforward since we haven't really documented all this. The (platform) project is not set up for contributions unlike app packages. I will look into your clickhouse work and see how easy this is to make it an addon.
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Thank you for the feedback. I am very excited for Plausible to be a part of the Cloudron app store, and I wish you the best of luck in packaging Clickbase for Cloudron.
For backing up and restoring the Clickbase database, you may reference the
clickbase-backup.shandclickbase-restore.shscripts in my repository.Should you use any of my code in the Clickhouse addon, I am happy to assign copyright to you - just send me a release form.
In the meantime, for those who are not willing to wait for @girish
, feel free to use the code in my repository - it provisions a fully working installation of Plausible with a local Clickhouse db. -
@Sydney , thank you very much, indeed!
I really hope an app will make to Cloudron sooner, rather than later!
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Bump on this. I can see it being another one that will bring in new Cloudron users.
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@LoudLemur said in Plausible (Analytics Platform):
It seemed Plausible is a proprietary solution
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What do you mean? it's AGPL https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/master/LICENSE.md
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@jdaviescoates said in Plausible (Analytics Platform):
What do you mean? it's AGPL https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/master/LICENSE.md
Per the docs, they only release twice a year (unlike the SaaS version which has continuous updates). Do you know what this means in terms of security updates?
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@girish said in Plausible (Analytics Platform):
Do you know what this means in terms of security updates?
No
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@girish said in Plausible (Analytics Platform):
Saw an alternative today - https://github.com/vinceanalytics/vince . Main thing is it doesn't require Clickhouse...
Does look cool and more freedom-orientated.
We also have this that I know many people would like to see:
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@girish We contributed some code back to Plausible Analytics some time ago to accomplish some things we wanted on our time line rather than theirs. They publish infrequent "official" updates to the self-hosted Docker code in part to minimize the support impact on their small development team. I believe they publish their code (not self-hosted) updates more frequently, which might give visibility to security updates and new features. Their primary source of revenue is from paid accounts that they host on their own infrastructure, so perhaps another reason is to entice customers to use their hosted Plausible solution.
FWIW, we do both, in part to support their efforts. They are solid and I have nothing but good things to say about them as a company, a platform, and as individuals.
