LimeSurvey Hosting on MassiveGRID PaaS
LimeSurvey is the most widely used open-source survey platform, with more than 80 question types, conditional logic, quotas, multilingual questionnaires and export to SPSS, R and Excel. The MassiveGRID PaaS package installs LimeSurvey with a PHP server and database in one click so your response data stays on infrastructure you control.
LimeSurvey on MassiveGRID PaaS installs in one click in New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore, costs about $19.68 a month for the Starter configuration, a PHP application server (512 MiB) and a MySQL or MariaDB database (512 MiB), and starts with a 14-day free trial. See the sizing table.
Both buttons open the MassiveGRID PaaS dashboard with LimeSurvey pre-selected. Sign up without a card, name the environment, pick a region, and the package installs in a few minutes.
LimeSurvey Package Facts
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Package | LimeSurvey |
| Type | Application (installs a complete environment) |
| Category | Websites & CMS |
| Software vendor / project | LimeSurvey GmbH |
| Licence | GPLv2 or later (Community Edition, open source) |
| Runtime / stack | PHP application server, MySQL or MariaDB |
| Regions | New York, London, Frankfurt, Singapore |
| Billing | Pay-per-use, about $19.68/month for the Starter configuration (8 cloudlets at $0.003372 per cloudlet-hour), no licence fee |
| Free trial | 14 days, no credit card |
| Uptime SLA | 100% |
What is LimeSurvey?
Researchers, HR departments, market-research agencies and public bodies use LimeSurvey when hosted survey tools are too limited or when response data cannot leave a particular jurisdiction. It supports anonymous and token-based surveys, branching and piping, assessments, timed questions and detailed statistics, and it has been translated into more than 80 languages.
Survey traffic is spiky by nature: nothing for weeks, then thousands of respondents in a day when a questionnaire is sent to a whole organisation or customer base. Pay-per-use PaaS suits that pattern well. The package deploys LimeSurvey on a PHP application server with a MySQL or MariaDB database, and vertical auto-scaling adds capacity during the response peak and removes it afterwards.
What the LimeSurvey Package Deploys
Marketplace packages are not bare container images. One click provisions a complete, production-shaped environment on MassiveGRID infrastructure. How these nodes are sized and what they cost.
- PHP application server: Apache or NGINX with PHP-FPM, configured with the upload limits and extensions LimeSurvey needs for file-upload questions and exports.
- MySQL or MariaDB database: A linked database container holding surveys, tokens and responses, with credentials pre-filled.
- LimeSurvey Community Edition: The current release installed with the setup wizard completed, ready for the first administrator login.
- Built-in domain and SSL: Respondents connect over HTTPS immediately, and your own domain can be attached with Let's Encrypt.
What LimeSurvey Costs to Run
Three starting configurations for the LimeSurvey package, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| StarterEvaluation and small teams | PHP application server (4 cloudlets, 512 MiB), MySQL or MariaDB database (4 cloudlets, 512 MiB) | 8 | $19.68 |
| StandardA team in daily use | PHP application server (8 cloudlets, 1 GiB), MySQL or MariaDB database (8 cloudlets, 1 GiB) | 16 | $39.36 |
| ProductionHigh traffic, scaled horizontally | NGINX load balancer (4 cloudlets, 512 MiB), 2 × PHP application server (8 cloudlets, 1 GiB each), MySQL or MariaDB database (8 cloudlets, 1 GiB) | 28 | $68.88 |
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. Pick a row in the installer by setting the cloudlet limits per node, or start small and let auto-scaling grow it. Price a different topology or a working-hours schedule in the PaaS pricing calculator; the PaaS page describes the billing model.
Why Teams Choose LimeSurvey
80+ question types and logic
Matrices, rankings, sliders, file uploads, conditions, randomisation and quotas cover academic and commercial research needs.
Data stays with you
Responses live in your own database in your chosen MassiveGRID region, which simplifies GDPR, ethics-board and client confidentiality requirements.
Export for analysis
Download results to SPSS, R, Stata, CSV, Excel and PDF, or query the RemoteControl API from your own tools.
Elastic for response peaks
Auto-scaling handles the day the survey goes out; the rest of the year the environment idles cheaply.
How to Install LimeSurvey 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 LimeSurvey 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 LimeSurvey node, wires them together and hands you the live URL and credentials.
Who Runs LimeSurvey on PaaS
Universities and research groups
Academic studies with ethics requirements about where participant data is stored.
HR and employee engagement
Anonymous staff surveys with departmental quotas and token-based invitations.
Market research and customer feedback
Agencies running many client surveys, each in an isolated, separately billed environment.
Why Run LimeSurvey on MassiveGRID PaaS
Built for uptime. LimeSurvey 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 LimeSurvey 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 27001 and 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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