I would like to sign up for a commercial open edx hosting provider, but many of them bill based on how many people sign in to the platform per month. Does anyone know how I could determine that from my platform? (E.g. a MySQL query?) A key thing is I want to avoid duplicates (i.e. if someone signed in day 1 and day 2 I think that would only count as one user for monthly sign-ins purposes.)
Hi @JS777,
Note that sessions in Open edX are kept in cookies that last 28 days. So if a student keeps using the same browser and does not clean cookies, it not likely to sign-in again during that period even if they close the browser or reset the computer.
Anyway, logins are not recorded in the database. If you want to keep track of them you will have to check the tracking logs.
Check with the providers what exactly do they charge for. For example some of them charge for active users. You should check exactly what does it mean and how is it calculated.
In our case, at Aulasneo all our plans are flat rate for unlimited users.
Hope it helps!
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