Liferay on MassiveGRID PaaS
Liferay is the leading open-source Java portal platform for building intranets, customer and partner portals, and digital-experience sites with single sign-on, personalisation and integration with enterprise systems. The MassiveGRID PaaS package deploys Liferay Portal Community Edition with its database in one click.
Both buttons open the MassiveGRID PaaS dashboard with Liferay pre-selected. The trial needs no credit card.
Liferay Package Facts
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Package | Liferay |
| Type | Application (installs a complete environment) |
| Category | Websites & CMS |
| Software vendor / project | Liferay, Inc. |
| Licence | LGPLv2.1 (Liferay Portal Community Edition, open source) |
| Runtime / stack | Java application server (Tomcat bundle), relational database |
| Regions | New York, London, Frankfurt, Singapore |
| Billing | Pay-per-use from $2.46/month ($0.003372/hour), no licence fee |
| Free trial | 14 days, no credit card |
| Uptime SLA | 100% |
What is Liferay?
Liferay Portal has been developed since 2000 and is used by banks, insurers, governments and universities to give employees, customers and partners a single, personalised entry point to many back-end systems. It provides user and role management, page composition from portlets and widgets, document libraries, forms, workflow and web content management, all extensible with Java and OSGi modules.
It is a heavyweight Java application. The marketplace package deploys the Liferay Tomcat bundle with an appropriately sized JVM and a linked relational database, so architects can stand up a proof of concept in minutes and grow it into a production portal with vertical auto-scaling and, later, additional nodes.
What the Liferay Package Deploys
Marketplace packages are not bare container images. One click provisions a complete, production-shaped environment on MassiveGRID infrastructure.
- Java application server: The Liferay Tomcat bundle with JVM heap and thread settings matched to the environment's cloudlet limit.
- Relational database: A linked database container for Liferay's portal schema, configured during installation.
- Document library storage: Persistent storage for the document and media library with platform snapshots.
- Built-in domain and SSL: Immediate HTTPS access to the portal and its APIs.
Why Teams Choose Liferay
Portal and DXP features
Sites, pages, widgets, web content, documents, forms, workflow, blogs, wikis and message boards in one platform.
Identity and personalisation
LDAP, SAML and OAuth integration, roles, organisations and segmentation for personalised experiences.
Enterprise integration
OSGi modules, REST and GraphQL APIs connect the portal to ERP, CRM and legacy systems.
Scale when adopted
Start with one node for a pilot; add a load balancer and a second Liferay node with shared storage when the portal goes live to thousands of users.
How to Install Liferay on MassiveGRID PaaS
Installing the package takes 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 or Install to my account. The MassiveGRID PaaS dashboard opens with the Liferay package pre-selected, so nothing has to be copied or pasted.
Sign up or sign in
New to the platform? Sign up for the free 14-day trial, which needs no credit card. Existing customers sign in with their usual dashboard credentials.
Choose region and deploy
Name the environment, pick New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore, and confirm. The platform builds every Liferay node, wires them together and hands you the live URL and credentials.
Who Runs Liferay on PaaS
Employee intranets
Company portals combining news, documents, HR self-service and application links behind single sign-on.
Customer and partner portals
Banks, insurers and manufacturers giving external users personalised access to accounts, documents and support.
Government citizen portals
Public-service portals with forms, workflows and identity integration, hosted in the required jurisdiction.
Why Run Liferay on MassiveGRID PaaS
Built for uptime. Liferay runs on MassiveGRID's high-availability platform, where every environment is covered by a 100% uptime SLA. Nodes live on redundant hosts, storage is replicated, and failed containers are restarted or migrated automatically.
Pay for what you use. Billing is hourly and per cloudlet (128 MiB RAM plus 400 MHz CPU). Vertical auto-scaling adds and removes cloudlets as load changes, so a quiet Liferay environment costs a few dollars a month and a busy one grows without a migration. Full details are on the PaaS page.
Your choice of jurisdiction. Deploy in New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore and keep data inside the region your users or regulators require. MassiveGRID is ISO 9001 certified and GDPR compliant, and has run hosting infrastructure since 2003.
No lock-in. The package is a standard Jelastic Packaging Standard (JPS) manifest. You keep root-level access to the containers, can export the manifest, and can move the workload to any other Jelastic-compatible platform or to your own servers at any time.
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