Mattermost Hosting on MassiveGRID PaaS
The free edition of Mattermost installed in one click with its database, file storage and a certificate, in New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore, billed for the cloudlets the server uses rather than per seat. Mattermost's own licensing model is self-hosted by default, and this is the server.
Mattermost on MassiveGRID PaaS installs in one click in New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore, costs about $59.04 a month for the Starter configuration, a Mattermost server (2 GiB) and a Database (1 GiB), and starts with a 14-day free trial. See the sizing table.
The install button opens the MassiveGRID PaaS dashboard with Mattermost pre-selected. Sign up without a card, name the environment, pick a region, and the package installs in a few minutes.
Why host Mattermost on MassiveGRID PaaS
Mattermost's pricing page lists its paid tiers as prepaid annual seat licences and names self-hosting as the default deployment model, so the question for most teams is not whether to self-host but where. The Mattermost package on MassiveGRID PaaS, built on Virtuozzo Application Platform (formerly Jelastic), installs the free edition with no seat fee: a 200-person team pays for one server, which the Slack replacement post prices.
Chat servers have a particular cost shape: the server and database stay small while attachments, screenshots and call recordings grow forever. The package keeps files on persistent storage billed per gigabyte and resized without downtime, so the server node is sized to the users and the storage to the history.
The data stays where the team's lawyers want it. A chat history in Frankfurt or London stays in Frankfurt or London, with backups on a Backup Storage node you place, which is the first question a works council or a regulator asks.
What the Mattermost package deploys
The Mattermost server, a database node, file storage and a platform subdomain with a certificate; a custom domain, which the mobile apps and push notifications need, takes the Let's Encrypt add-on. Mattermost's group calls run on the same server up to about 50 concurrent participants per Mattermost's own figure.
Operations are the production hardening post: a public address, TLS, nightly database dumps with the Database Backup/Restore add-on, and an environment clone before each monthly Mattermost release. The requirements guide covers sizing and licensing.
Who hosts Mattermost this way
Teams replacing a per-seat chat tool. The arithmetic against Slack or Teams is a server against a seat count, and it is short above a few dozen users.
Regulated organisations who need the chat history inside one jurisdiction with their own backups and retention policy.
Engineering teams who integrate chat with GitLab, deploy hooks and alerts, which the ChatOps post wires up on the internal network.
Teams that need Mattermost's compliance exports, vendor-certified high availability or a support contract should buy a Mattermost licence; the server can still be this one.
What Mattermost costs to run here
Three starting configurations, sized in cloudlets (1 cloudlet = 128 MiB RAM + 400 MHz CPU) and priced at the published rate of $0.003372 per cloudlet-hour, or $2.46 per cloudlet-month.
| Configuration | Topology | Cloudlets | Est. per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| StarterUp to a few dozen users | Mattermost server (16 cloudlets, 2 GiB), Database (8 cloudlets, 1 GiB) | 24 | $59.04 |
| StandardA few hundred users | Mattermost server (32 cloudlets, 4 GiB), Database (16 cloudlets, 2 GiB) | 48 | $118.08 |
| ProductionLarge teams with heavy file sharing | NGINX load balancer (4 cloudlets, 512 MiB), 2 × Mattermost server (32 cloudlets, 4 GiB each), Database (24 cloudlets, 3 GiB) | 92 | $226.32 |
Estimates assume the environment averages the listed cloudlets around the clock; billing is hourly, vertical auto-scaling lowers the figure when the application is idle, and volume discounts apply as usage grows. Disk and external traffic are billed per gigabyte on top. No licence fee applies to the package. Price a different topology or a working-hours schedule in the PaaS pricing calculator.
Mattermost on MassiveGRID PaaS vs Mattermost Cloud Enterprise and seat licences vs a VPS
Mattermost Cloud Enterprise and seat licences figures were read from the vendor's page on 1 November 2026; re-check them before relying on them.
| Aspect | Mattermost on MassiveGRID PaaS | Mattermost Cloud Enterprise and seat licences | A plain VPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | About $59.04 (Starter) to $226.32 (Production), before discounts; the free edition has no seat fee | Not published; quoted by sales. Professional and Enterprise are prepaid annual seat licences; Cloud Enterprise is a single-tenant hosted option for the Enterprise tier | A 2 to 4 GB server's monthly price; plus your time |
| What you manage | The application inside the containers (updates, configuration); the platform runs the infrastructure, scaling and the 100% uptime SLA | Cloud Enterprise: Mattermost runs it; seat licences: you run the server | Everything: OS, runtime, database, TLS, backups, upgrades |
| Limits and metering | Unlimited users on the free edition; group calls about 50 concurrent users per server per Mattermost | Seats licensed annually, grown by quarterly true-forward purchases | No metering; limited by the server's size |
| Scaling | Vertical by the cloudlet, automatic and without restart; horizontal on a trigger behind the platform's load balancer | Cloud Enterprise: Mattermost's; self-hosted licence: your server | Resize the server, usually with a reboot; no horizontal scaling without your own load balancer |
| Data location | New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore, chosen at install; data stays there | Cloud Enterprise: Mattermost's hosting; otherwise your server | Wherever the VPS is; one server, one location |
| Backups | Database Backup/Restore and Backup Storage add-ons on a schedule, environment clone for rehearsals | Cloud Enterprise: Mattermost's; otherwise yours | Your own cron jobs and off-server copies |
| Availability | 100% uptime SLA, nodes on separate hosts, failed containers restarted or migrated | Per contract | Single server; the provider's hardware SLA only |
| Lock-in | Standard JPS manifest and root access; export the manifest or move the containers at any time | Bulk export tooling exists; compliance exports on paid tiers | None; you own the server |
Where Mattermost Cloud Enterprise and seat licences is the better choice: Mattermost's paid tiers are the right answer when the team needs compliance exports, high availability certified by the vendor, or support with a contract behind it; the server can still be the package here, since self-hosted is Mattermost's default model.
How to deploy Mattermost here
Three steps and a few minutes of waiting. No servers to provision, no configuration files to edit.
Open the installer
Click Install with free trial. The MassiveGRID PaaS dashboard opens with the Mattermost package pre-selected.
Sign up or sign in
The free 14-day trial needs no credit card. Existing customers sign in with their dashboard credentials.
Choose region and deploy
Name the environment, pick New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore, and confirm. The platform builds every node and hands you the live URL and credentials.
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