What are the advantages and disadvantages of hosting Fedena in Foradian's server?

Modified on Mon, 30 Sep, 2019 at 5:17 PM

Advantages of Hosting Fedena in Foradian Server:

A partner can choose to host Fedena in Foradian's server or third party servers. Fedena team strongly suggest hosting the Fedena application with Foradian Servers only. This is because

Easy Installation
- There is no need of Installation of the Application. This reduces time in installing the Application and reduce the cost of technical manpower for the client
High availability
- We at Foradian ensure that the application is not down anytime. We promise 99.9% up time. With the servers that are fine-tuned support Fedena and Ruby on Rails, we ensure the downtime is almost Nil
Backup - No Data Loss
- By Hosting with Fedena, you don't have to worry about losing your Data. Your Data is always safe with us. We take backup of your Data twice a day.
Server maintenance
- You don't have to spend anything on server maintenance You don't have to find a server admin to keep the server up and running. Things like checking server log files, hard disk space, folder permissions, redundancy etc will be taken care from our side.
Easy debugging of issues and seamless upgrades
- If any bugs arise, we could easily fix it or analyse the bug if the application is hosted on our servers. You don't have to provide your server login details or wait for our support team to connect with you. Just raise a ticket stating the issue and we will straight away analyse it and get back to you.
Low TCO
- In practical terms to run a server of your own, you will need resources like a server admin and servers. Or you will have to purchase these services from a third party. Both options might seem profitable at first sight. But in reality, the efforts required to maintain the resources will invite a lot of hidden costs.
Additional infrastructure is not required
- The infrastructure required to install and maintain servers is not needed. You don't have to worry about cost factor of creating an infrastructure to maintain your server.

Disadvantages of Hosting Fedena in Foradian Server:

The customization will not be possible for a particular user as all the institution are hosted in the Foradian server and the changes made will reflect in other institutions as well. Hence, we have restricted the customization within SAAS plan.