# Cloud-based vs. Self-Hosted Mautic Installation

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/cloud-based-vs-self-hosted-mautic-installation/8325>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 24, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/cloud-based-vs-self-hosted-mautic-installation/8325 "2017-04-24T20:49:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![leviellard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@leviellard](https://forum.mautic.org/u/leviellard)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/cloud-based-vs-self-hosted-mautic-installation/8325/1 "2017-04-24T20:49:07Z")

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What are the key differences between your cloud-based Mautic installation and a self-hosted installation?

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**Author:** ![leviellard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@leviellard](https://forum.mautic.org/u/leviellard)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/cloud-based-vs-self-hosted-mautic-installation/8325/2 "2017-04-24T20:49:07Z")

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What are the key differences between your cloud-based Mautic installation and a self-hosted installation?

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**Author:** ![denispavliha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@denispavliha](https://forum.mautic.org/u/denispavliha)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/cloud-based-vs-self-hosted-mautic-installation/8325/3 "2017-04-25T05:21:25Z")

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…and have to make sure you monitor your RAID arrays and make backups and be careful to dump the DB before upgrading etc.

I am also using a self-hosted instance. But it is important that you take care of these issues too.

Well, you can use a VPS and that’s one concern less (hardware).

D.

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**Author:** ![SurePayCJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@SurePayCJ](https://forum.mautic.org/u/SurePayCJ)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 8:25am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/cloud-based-vs-self-hosted-mautic-installation/8325/4 "2017-09-30T08:25:20Z")

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Can anyone share whose hosting service you have had success with?

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**Author:** ![Yosu\_Cadilla](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/yosu_cadilla/32/6206_2.png) [@Yosu\_Cadilla](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Yosu_Cadilla)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/cloud-based-vs-self-hosted-mautic-installation/8325/5 "2017-09-30T13:42:17Z")

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@leviellard The cloud-based is ready to go instantly, the self-hosted you have to take care of the IT infrastructure yourself.  
@SurePayCJ Mautic will work on 99% of the shared hostings out there and in 100% of the Cloud VPS offerings. The latter is recommended.  
Amazon EC2, Google Cloud and Digital Ocean are 3 examples of good hosts.  
Digital Ocean is cheaper, faster and simpler to manage, if you use my affiliate link you’ll get $10 free credit:  
[https://m.do.co/c/7a85b33e64cf](https://m.do.co/c/7a85b33e64cf)