For AI agents: a documentation index is available at /llms.txt. A markdown version of this page is available at /guide/self-hosted/get-started/introduction.md.
Self-hosted Orangescrum
The Enterprise edition running on your own servers — the full product, your infrastructure, your data.
Orangescrum Self-Hosted (also called the On-Premises or Enterprise edition) is the complete commercial product deployed inside your own environment. Same feature set as Cloud; you own the servers, the database and the data.
Hardware, OS and database requirements before you start.
🚀InstallDocker or a traditional Apache/Nginx deployment.
#Who this section is for
Your IT or operations team. Installing, backing up and upgrading the server is a one-time-then-occasional administrative job.
Everyday users start elsewhere
If Orangescrum is already running and you just want to use it, none of this applies — go to the Cloud user guide. The product works identically whoever hosts it.
#Choosing self-hosted
Data residency or regulatory requirements, an internal policy that data cannot leave your network, or an air-gapped environment.
"It'll be cheaper." Price the operational cost honestly — servers, backups, TLS, monitoring, upgrades and someone on call — against the subscription.
#How it compares
| Cloud | Self-hosted | Community | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full feature set | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Who operates it | Orangescrum | You | You |
| Your infrastructure | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Licence | Subscription | Commercial | AGPL v3 (free) |
| Backups, upgrades, TLS | Handled | Your job | Your job |
| Agile, Gantt, resourcing, reporting | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Add-ons (Wiki, DMS, Test Case Manager, SAFe) | ✓ | ✓ | — |
Self-hosted is not the free edition
The free, open-source Community Edition is also self-hosted, but it is a deliberately reduced product — no agile boards, Gantt, reporting, resourcing or integrations. This section covers the commercial Enterprise edition, which requires a licence.
#What you take on
Running it yourself means owning these, permanently:
Backups you have tested
Not just configured — actually restored at least once. See Backup.
TLS and certificate renewal
A domain, a certificate, and something that renews it before it expires.
Upgrades
Applied in a maintenance window, rehearsed on a copy first. See Upgrade.
Monitoring
Disk, container health and the error log. Attachment storage is what fills up first.
SMTP
Without working outbound mail, invitations and password resets silently fail.
#Add-ons
The optional modules — Wiki, Document Management, Risk Management, Test Case Manager, Scaled Agile (SAFe), Advanced Dashboard (Superset), Public API — are enabled per licence. Some need extra infrastructure: the reporting dashboard runs its own Superset service and database, which is why the stack has more than one container.
#Getting help
Deployment questions, licensing and sizing all go through Orangescrum directly — this is a supported commercial product, not a self-service install.
📋Next: prerequisitesWhat the servers need before you begin.