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Service description

Hosted services on rforms.org

• Hosting on rforms.org, studies are hosted at STUDYNAME.rforms.org
• Data are stored on European servers in databases encrypted-at-rest
• Minimal fuss
• The formr survey software with progressive web app functionality
• Data processing agreement required to collect non-anonymous data

Self hosting

•    Containerised setup

• An encrypted and replicated database
• Automatic encrypted backups
• Reverse proxy, brute force protection, SSL encryption with Let’s encrypt
• Secured R-Server (OpenCPU)
• The formr survey software with progressive web app functionality
• Security and functional updates for one year
• Monitoring of the functionality and uptime
• Studies on your own domain or on a university subdomain (pending agreement with university IT)

Hosting on university IT vs. commercial IT

•    Commercial IT

  • has an annual cost of around 240€ for typical uses
  • typically offers high reliability/uptime,
  • is easy to scale for more users
  • requires a data processing agreement between you and the hoster
  • standardized, cheaper to maintain formr
• University IT
  • often low or no annual cost
  • typically less reliable, less support
  • requires no data processing agreement
  • unstandardised, costs for adapting to local setup are billed hourly, more expensive