# selfhosted

"Keycloak is the leading open-source identity and access management platform — Apache-2.0, no per-user fee, backed by Red Hat. This 5,000-word teardown covers what it actually delivers, why running it is an infrastructure project, the high-availability trade-offs, and exactly where your users' credentials and sessions go."

"Rocket.Chat gives you a Slack-shaped chat server you fully own — until you need message auditing, DLP, or high availability, which sit behind a paid Enterprise licence. A 5,000-word honest teardown of what the MIT community core actually covers, what MongoDB replica-set requirement really costs, and where your data goes."