Services like S3 and R2 can be invaluable when self-hosting Plausible Analytics. Let's walk through what it looks like to use them for automated backups a simple cron job.

If you've ever gotten a "bad gateway" error from your self-hosted instance of Plausible Analytics, there are a couple of things you might try first.

Backing up your data is critical for effectively any self-hosted application. Let's explore how you can make it happen for Plausible Analytics.

If you're running Plausible Analytics on a virtual machine (or some other box), you don't need to abide by the default API key rate limit it enforces. Let's walk through how to raise it.