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Why self-host your team chat
What you gain when your messages live on your own server, and what you take on.
Where the data sits
With a hosted tool, your messages sit on the vendor's servers. With Dock, they sit in one SQLite file on a machine you choose. You can see it, copy it and move it.
That does not make it automatically safer. It makes it yours to protect.
What you gain
Control
You decide where it runs, who can reach it and how long you keep backups.
Portability
One file moves to a new server with a copy.
Flat cost
Your server bill does not change when you add people.
What you take on
Updates
You apply updates.
Backups
You make and test them.
Uptime
If the server is down, chat is down.
Or let us run it
If you do not want the work, Managed is for that. Contact us. Pricing is a draft and may change.