Open edX® Fully Managed Hosting

At OpenCraft, we take pride in offering managed hosting solutions for Open edX® deployments tailored to meet the specific needs of your project. Whether your deployment caters to a single organization or is large-scale enough to serve a nation state, our hosting services are engineered to provide the highest levels of efficiency, security, and scalability.

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Unparalleled Expertise

Maintaining a 24/7 hosting team can be both costly and complex. By partnering with OpenCraft, you leverage a team of Open edX® experts who are deeply familiar with your system. We don’t just handle releases and create widely-used hosting solutions; we also play a pivotal role in shaping the platform’s future, ensuring your system benefits from our forward-thinking contributions.

Dedicated Account Manager

You’ll have a single point of contact for all your questions. This person is well-acquainted with your system, including its unique features and customizations. Say goodbye to the frustration of dealing with different people in every email! Our team can work with you through your issue tracker or set up a new one, letting you efficiently monitor all work in progress.

24/7 Global Monitoring

Our team operates globally, covering all time zones to ensure round-the-clock support. Automated monitoring systems detect issues promptly, often before they impact your operations. This proactive approach helps maintain the stability and performance of your system, ensuring you receive timely assistance whenever needed.

Secure Hosting Solutions

Dedicated Instances with Full Control

Our hosting plans offer dedicated Open edX® instances, giving you complete administrative control. This setup ensures that your environment remains exclusive, secure, and highly customizable. With a separate database and the ability to run custom features and code, you can manage settings without needing approval from the instance operator.

Flexible Hosting and Cost Solutions

Choose between hosting your dedicated instance on a shared Kubernetes cluster for full administrative access at a reduced cost, or have us set it up on your own hosting account with providers like AWS, DigitalOcean, or another of your choice. You have the flexibility to take full ownership and control of your hosting environment whenever you wish.

Regional Data Hosting Compliance

OpenCraft offers regional hosting options to ensure your data is stored in the region you select. This helps maintain compliance with local data protection regulations and keeps your learners' and clients' personal data within the desired country. If you need hosting in a specific location or with a provider we don’t currently support, we can work to add that capability for you.

Scalable Solutions and Resource Management

Our hosting services are designed to adapt to your organization's evolving needs. With auto-scaling, continuous monitoring, and proactive maintenance, we ensure your environment adjusts seamlessly to server fluctuations. Additionally, we can advise you on utilizing hosting discounts to maximize your savings over time.

Backup and Disaster Recovery Services

We offer automated data backup and disaster recovery solutions to ensure continuous service, even in the event of unexpected incidents. Our comprehensive management of backend issues allows you to concentrate on your primary objectives, knowing that your data is securely protected.

Comprehensive Security Measures

OpenCraft adheres to industry best practices for encryption, credential management, and deployment. We can also collaborate with your compliance team to meet specific security requirements, including implementing automated policies, configuration directives, and other security measures tailored to your needs.

Elevate Your Open edX® Deployment with our Expert Hosting Plans

With OpenCraft's Institutional Hosting Plans, you can rest assured that your Open edX® deployment is in expert hands, guaranteeing performance, security, and scalability as you focus on your core technical objectives. Your data remains fully under your control; we provide dumps of all site-generated data, allowing for in-depth analysis and customization. We can also assist in building custom reports as part of our support offerings.

Work with a Team of Trusted Community Members

Our position in the Open edX® community means that we can advise you not only on how to solve your problems today, but on how to prepare for changes down the line. Our continued commitment to the platform means we are engaged in design decisions, version releases, and other key decisions.

Team Up with Experienced Open edX® Core Contributors

Working with OpenCraft means having a say in how the Open edX® platform is developed and championed. We represent our clients in community working groups, tackling product design, marketing, development, and more. Our team sports more Core Contributors than any other organization in the community.

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The OpenCraft handbook serves as the definitive guide to how we operate as a company. In line with our commitment to openness and transparency, most of it is publicly accessible. Our goal is to eventually only keep client-sensitive information in a private repository, while making the majority of our policies public.

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I have worked with OpenCraft on multiple projects in the past years, and I am still amazed by how consistent, professional, and responsive they are. I can rely on their support and quality of the code, always. They continuously contribute to the Open edX® platform.
Natalia Berdnikov | Senior Project Manager | edX
OpenCraft has been an invaluable partner in making our vision for Cloudera OnDemand a reality. No other Open edX® provider can rival OpenCraft's deep level of knowledge of the platform, or match their skill in customizing it.
Rowan McVey | Former Program Manager | Cloudera
OpenCraft developed two custom products for my team to expand the Open edX® platform's capabilities. Their performance and attention to customer satisfaction exceeded my expectations with seamless integrations.
Stefan Esposito | Instructional Development Manager | HarvardX | Opinion independent of organization
We sought a partner who shared our values on open source, knew the Open edX® community well, and delivered high quality service. OpenCraft did just that and more, with rock-solid service and a willingness to explore ways to provide more value to our university community.
Michael Greene | Associate Director | Duke Learning Innovation | Duke University | Opinion independent of organization
OpenCraft has successfully delivered several complex features in the Open edX® platform, and are recognized throughout the Community as experts in development of XBlocks. We count on OpenCraft to develop key parts of our roadmap on time and at a high quality.
Steve Magoun | Former Engineering Director | edX
OpenCraft is fantastic to work with. They customized our Open edX® instance allowing for the very specific use case we needed. The high level of customization achieved thanks to OpenCraft is critical to our ability to train policy makers around the world.
Charlotte Tuminelli | Senior Training Manager | Harvard Kennedy School | Opinion independent of organization
OpenCraft matched all of our needs, quickly and satisfactorily. This is a service we would recommend. Everything works great and there is always somebody on the other side of the email.
Ramon Ovelar | Researcher | University of the Basque Country
OpenCraft's working relationship with the Open edX® Community allows changes to be quickly integrated in the latest Open edX® release, allowing everyone to benefit. The team provided fantastic support on a very complex issue with a very tight deadline.
Ethan Barden | MeriSTEM Project Coordinator | Australian National University
OpenCraft's work is professional, accurate, always on time and with a smile. They are true leaders of the Open Source community around the Open edX® technology.
Anne Lifshits Agmon | CTO | Campus-IL | Israel's National Project for Digital Learning
OpenCraft was a pleasure to work with, helping through every stage of the process. From idea generation, prototyping, construction, deployment, and testing. They were responsive to my needs and completed the work on time and on budget.
Bill Wisser | Sr. Director of Learning Technologies | Harvard Graduate School of Education | Opinion independent of organization
OpenCraft’s strong collaboration skills, excellence in their craft, and harmonic practices lead to significant contributions to the Open edX® ecosystem. This results in a profound resonance of the edX mission to provide quality education to the global community.
Nimisha Asthagiri | Chief Architect | edX
LabXchange is committed to open source, and so with OpenCraft's deep investment in the development of Open edX®, they were an obvious partner for us. OpenCraft built the LabXchange platform and ensured a productive collaboration with the technical team at edX.
Robert A Lue | Former Faculty Director & Principal Investigator | Harvard LabXchange