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title: 'Introduction'
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# Introduction to the backend
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The backend is essentially just an account server. It handles user accounts, syncing, and other account related features.
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## Recommended Community Backend
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To keep consistency and compatibility between different instances our partner, [lonelil](https://github.com/lonelil), has kindly offered to host a movie-web backend with a copy of the original data from the now unavailable movie-web.app backend. You can access this backend at: `https://mw-backend.lonelil.com` and `https://mw-backend.lonelil.ru`
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Meaning users **do not** have to set up a new account; you can use your previous passphrase from movie-web, and all of your data will be there!
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## Metrics
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The backend exposes an endpoint for [Prometheus metrics](https://prometheus.io/) which allows you to keep track of the backend more easily, it can be accessed on `/metrics`.
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To view these metrics properly, you'll need to use an analytics program like [Grafana](https://grafana.com/), [which can visualize logs from Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/docs/visualization/grafana/).
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## Security
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Optionally, there are a few security settings:
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- [Recaptcha support](./configuration.mdx#captcha), the server can verify Recaptcha v3 tokens on register and login.
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- [Ratelimits](./configuration.mdx#ratelimits), some expensive endpoints have ratelimits, but only when enabled. This requires an additional redis connection.
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## Migrations
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Migrations help keep your database schema in sync with everyone else. To run migrations, you can use the `pnpm migration:up` command inside the docker container or in your command-line if you're not using docker.
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Alternatively, you can enable the [`postgres.migrateOnBoot`](./configuration.mdx#postgres-migrate-on-boot) variable and it will be automatically migrated on boot.
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