We’re looking into alternatives to AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure for hosting Open edX, and I’d love to hear from the community.
If you’re currently running Open edX on another cloud provider:
Which provider/infrastructure are you using?
How has your experience been, especially around reliability, performance, maintenance, and cost?
Are there any particular advantages or pain points you’d highlight?
Also, would you be interested in collaborating on making it easier to deploy and support large or multiple Open edX instances on alternative clouds/infrastructure?
we sure are! We run all of our Open edX platforms including Cleura Cloud Academy on our own OpenStack-based cloud platform, Cleura Cloud.
Technical documentation is here. Our cloud has S3-compatible object storage (from Ceph, details here), which we use for Open edX storage via tutor-contrib-s3. We also use the same cloud for hosting interactive learning environments via the Stackamole XBlock.
Thank you for your reply @fghaas! By any chance, does Cleura has managed MySQL/MariaDB offerings? I was trying to dig deep, but couldn’t find information about it.
We do have a Managed Database offering. However, it’s also perfectly feasible to run Open edX in a two-site configuration using Tutor-managed MySQL and the tutor-contrib-backup plugin, without an externally-managed RDBMS.