Firebase Hosting on own server

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SleepNot picture SleepNot · Apr 20, 2015 · Viewed 14.7k times · Source

I am looking for a solution for developing iOS and Android chat to replace our current (unreliable, maybe poorly written by previous devs) XMPP/OpenFire chat. I came across Firebase which looks good. However, I don't quite get the setup for it.

Can I host Firebase on my own server and not have to subscribe to any of Firebase's plans?

Answer

Frank van Puffelen picture Frank van Puffelen · Apr 20, 2015

Firebase offers a few products:

  • the Firebase realtime database
  • Firebase hosting (for hosting static resources)
  • Firebase authentication

I think you are looking for the Firebase realtime database.

There is no way currently to host the Firebase realtime database on your own servers.

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