Hosting Options

You can use Thrive in three primary ways - global hosted, self hosted or local.

Global Hosted mode is what you get when you go to the webapp.The Thrive company is hosting a central install of the Thrive software, and manages all theuser accounts, infrastructure, data, etc. to make this happen. Your workspace is in the_cloud_. Since it's on the web, you can access it from everywhere, and every one of yourdevices. This is the simplest and most convenient way to use Thrive.

Self Hosted mode is when you handle running the software that makes up Thrive onyour own infrastructure. Your workspace is still on the web, you can access it fromeverywhere, and from many devices. Follow the self hostingguide to learn more about how to achieve this and the tradeoffs you'll make.

Local mode is what you get when you download the CLI app and run it on yourown computer. Your workspace lives on your machine, and is not accessible from anywhere else.Nobody else has access to your data, and you can take control of infrastructure needs yourself.This is an advanced/niche way of using Thrive, but I'm committed to making this thing workwell too.