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Thousands of governments and organizations run their CommCare applications as a cloud-hosted solution. While there are definitive benefits to hosting CommCare via the cloud, certain organizations or governments may opt to run CommCare on their own self-hosted or administered server. |
Overview
The open source digital platform CommCare enables frontline organizations to build their own custom, permanent solutions on a professionally managed foundation - at any scale, anywhere. CommCare was originally developed by Dimagi, and today has evolved into being one of the most widely deployed Global Goods in existence.
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Numerous organizations have followed these steps to independently transition their CommCare applications without requiring any support from Dimagi.
Popular Option: Hybrid Hosting
Hybrid Hosting realizes the benefits of CommCare’s secure, stable and scalable platform while also permanently storing data in-country on a designated data storage server. Hybrid Hosting uses a cloud-based project space for application building, user management, synchronization and integration, while using the open-source CommCare Sync tool to keep data synchronized to an in-country database which acts as a primary data store.
You can read more about Hybrid Hosting in this document:
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Additional Resources
CommCare Cloud is Dimagi's self-hosting toolkit for deploying and maintaining CommCare servers. Below are helpful resources for utilizing CommCare Cloud:
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