Nhost Cloud is the hosted edition of Nhost, an MIT-licensed backend of Postgres, Hasura GraphQL, auth, storage and functions. Pages here cover self-hosting Nhost or moving to Appwrite or Supabase.
What changes between Nhost Cloud and the open-source Nhost stack you run from its Docker Compose example: Postgres, Hasura, auth, storage and functions you operate, backups and point-in-time recovery, and the SOC 2 coverage of the Team plan.
Moving an Nhost Cloud project to self-hosted Nhost: setting up the services, dumping and restoring Postgres, applying Hasura metadata and migrations, moving storage files and reconfiguring auth providers and client URLs.
Using Appwrite Migrations to import users, databases and files from Nhost, what needs manual work (functions and some rows), replacing Hasura GraphQL queries with Appwrite APIs, and running Appwrite self-hosted.
Cost of ownership by component: Nhost Pro and Team plan fees, overages for database, storage and egress, and dedicated compute, against servers, managed Postgres and the people time to run the Nhost stack yourself.
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