Frequently asked questions

There are the most commonly asked questions about House Of FOSS.
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Our billing is simple and transparent: House Of FOSS charges you for each deployed service per hour. This includes compute time, storage, transit bandwidth, and the level of support you choose. There is no commitment.Learn more about billing and invoicing
Email and community support via our forum is available to everyone with our Test plan, with no SLA.

Staging Support plans offers a guaranteed response within 2 business days and priority queueing for support tickets, and email support.

Production Support plans offer a guaranteed response within 1 business day, highest priority queueing for support tickets, a dedicated customer success manager, and phone and email support.
Our dedicated service are running with full isolation so one service = one VM. You can install multiple softwares on a single VM using our CI/CD system.
Our cloud provider partners have datacenters in 62 cities across 20 countries. Deploy services close to your office or users and get the lowest possible latency.
House Of FOSS stores your account data in the EU, protected by some of the strictest privacy laws in the world. Click here to learn more about our Privacy policy and practices

Your application data is hosted in your service, in the country or city where you choose to deploy your services. By default, our automated remote backups are stored on the same continent as your service, but in a different datacenter.

Learn more about our backup strategy
Each House Of FOSS project generates a unique, secure, encrypted virtual network that allows any service in that project (in any region and on any provider) to communicate using private IPv4 addresses with near line-speed throughput. This unique feature is powered by Nebula, originally created by Slack and released as open-source software in 2020.
Yes, each service comes with a pre-configured firewall that opens application-specific ports to the internet. You can easily restrict access to one or multiple IPs from the service dashboard. Learn more about configuring your firewall
Yes, from the service dashboard you just need to click on the 'clone' button to migrate/clone the running service to any other target cloud or region.

Benefits of FocalBoard fully managed by House of FOSS

Deploy a fully managed instance of FocalBoard in a few minutes on House of FOSS. You can relax knowing that we are taking care of installation, configuration, encryption, security, backups, live monitoring, software & OS updates. No more DevOps. Deploy on any cloud or on-premise. Scalable & Secure.

Explore FocalBoard in action

See how FocalBoard works and what you can do with it

Dedicated hardware

We deliver all services on dedicated virtual machines: you get full access to the underlying resources and kernel-level security.

Automated Updates

Let's save your business a lot of hassle, whilst ensuring that you get the performance and security benefits of regularly updated software and systems.

Predictable pricing

A guaranteed monthly price covers everything: compute, storage, bandwidth, updates, security & maintenance.

No vendor lock-in

You can migrate your software and data to any cloud providers any time you want. With Elestio you are totally free and in control.

Compliance

We are SOC2, and GDPR compliant. We are committed to protecting your data and privacy.

Global Availability

Deploy close to your users with support for multiple cloud providers and on-premise options. Elestio ensures low-latency and high-performance anywhere in the world.

FocalBoard features and resources

Organizing everything in cards

Lists and cards are the building blocks of organizing work on a FocalBoard board. Grow from there with task assignments, timelines, productivity metrics, calendars, and more.

Project and task management

FocalBoard gives teams the tools to plan, track, and update multiple projects and tasks from a single platform. High accessibility, clear visibility, and real-time updates give remote teams an accurate view of all tasks.

Multiple versions

The tool is offered in two versions depending on your needs. In a personal setting, you can download the application directly from the Microsoft and Apple App Store or use the desktop version on Linux. In the context of collaborative projects, Focalboard has a version to install on a personal server.

Collaboration Focused

As a collaboration tool, Focalboard lets users invite others to their digital workspace. It also alerts collaborators when any changes are made to tasks within the program. The program also displays personal tasks to other team members, and allows for comments on tasks. Focalboard is where task management and collaboration features meet.

FocalBoard

fully managed by House Of FOSS

Focalboard is an open source alternative to tools like Asana, Trello, and Notion. Available as a stand-alone application or integrated into the Mattermost platform, Focalboard helps developers stay aligned to complete tasks, reach milestones, and achieve their goals.

Deploy FocalBoard on any cloud or on-premise. Scalable & Secure.

Deploy FocalBoard on any cloud or on-premise. Scalable & Secure.

Guides and resources

Why Choose Open Source for Your Business

Are you tired of rising SaaS costs, limited flexibility, and losing control over your business data?

Reduce Costs Without Compromising Quality

Save upto 60% compared to SaaS per-user pricing. With our fully managed services, you pay for the server resource used not for how many use it

Regain Control Over Your Data

Stop worrying about vendor lock-in or proprietary systems. With open-source solutions hosted in your own cloud or on-premise servers, you maintain full ownership of your data.

Customize Software to Fit Your Business

No more rigid SaaS platforms. Open-source tools let you tailor workflows, features, and integrations exactly that way your business needs—with us handling all technical work.