Moodle on MassiveGRID PaaS
Moodle is the world's most widely used open-source learning management system, running courses for hundreds of millions of learners at schools, universities and companies. The MassiveGRID PaaS package installs Moodle with a PHP server and database in one click, and auto-scales for enrolment and exam peaks.
Both buttons open the MassiveGRID PaaS dashboard with Moodle pre-selected. The trial needs no credit card.
Moodle Package Facts
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Package | Moodle |
| Type | Application (installs a complete environment) |
| Category | Websites & CMS |
| Software vendor / project | Moodle Pty Ltd |
| Licence | GPLv3 or later (open source) |
| Runtime / stack | PHP application server, MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL |
| 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 Moodle?
Moodle provides everything an online course needs: content pages, assignments with grading workflows, quizzes with question banks, forums, competencies, badges, and integrations with video conferencing, plagiarism checkers and student information systems through LTI and web services. Its plugin directory has more than 2,000 entries, and institutions customise it heavily.
The operational challenge of Moodle is load that arrives in waves: term start, assignment deadlines and exam windows can multiply traffic many times over in an hour. Pay-per-use PaaS with vertical auto-scaling fits that pattern better than a fixed server. The package deploys Moodle with a tuned PHP server and database, and the environment can be extended with Redis caching and additional web nodes when a single server is no longer enough.
What the Moodle Package Deploys
Marketplace packages are not bare container images. One click provisions a complete, production-shaped environment on MassiveGRID infrastructure.
- PHP application server: Apache or NGINX with PHP-FPM, OPcache and Moodle's required extensions (intl, soap, xmlrpc, zip and others), with upload limits raised for course files.
- Database: A linked MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL container with credentials pre-filled in Moodle's configuration.
- Moodledata storage: Persistent storage for uploaded files, backups and caches, outside the web root as Moodle requires.
- Built-in domain and SSL: Learners connect over HTTPS immediately; attach your institution's domain with Let's Encrypt.
Why Teams Choose Moodle
Complete LMS feature set
Courses, quizzes, assignments, gradebook, forums, competencies, badges and H5P interactive content out of the box.
Scales for exam day
Vertical auto-scaling adds cloudlets during peaks; horizontal scaling with a load balancer and shared moodledata is available for large institutions.
Integrations
LTI, SCORM, web services and plugins for BigBlueButton, Zoom, Turnitin, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
Learner data under your control
Host in New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore to meet FERPA, GDPR or national education-data rules.
How to Install Moodle 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 Moodle 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 Moodle node, wires them together and hands you the live URL and credentials.
Who Runs Moodle on PaaS
Schools and universities
Institutions running thousands of courses with predictable term-time peaks.
Corporate training
Companies delivering compliance and skills training with completion tracking and certificates.
Training providers and course sellers
Organisations selling courses online, often paired with WordPress or an e-commerce front end.
Why Run Moodle on MassiveGRID PaaS
Built for uptime. Moodle 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 Moodle 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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