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+## Powered by dataforest cloud
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+**Every TREK installation in the world searches through servers that dataforest cloud sponsors.**
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+The place index with over 88 million places, the address search in every TREK language and the planet-wide routing all run on dataforest cloud in Frankfurt, Germany, free of charge for everyone who self-hosts TREK. Without this sponsorship, these services would not exist in this form.
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+Thank you, dataforest, for backing open source this generously. 💚
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+Looking for a server for your own TREK? dataforest cloud is where TREK's own services live.
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`COOKIE_SECURE=false` is only for trying TREK over plain HTTP: without it the browser drops the session cookie and the login does not stick. Once TREK sits behind HTTPS (see [Reverse Proxy](#reverse-proxy)), remove it.
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+> **No server yet?** TREK's own public services run on [**dataforest cloud**](https://cloud.dataforest.net/en?mtm_campaign=trek), our infrastructure sponsor. A small seed is plenty for a TREK instance and is ready within a minute.
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Docker Compose · Helm / Kubernetes · Install as PWA · Reverse Proxy
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Every variable, its default and what it does: see
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