Many of our clients desire to compare LuminFire’s cloud hosting offering to Claris’ FileMaker Cloud Standard or Essentials. While they are similar offerings aimed at different target audiences, in most cases you are better off hosting with LuminFire.
Why choose LuminFire?
Here are a few items that set our hosting apart:
- Simplicity: We do all the setup and backend work for you.
- Performance: Our servers are tuned specifically for FileMaker hosting with fast SSD drives and gigabit connectivity.
- Security: Ability to host high security solutions including HIPAA complaint hosting if required (LuminFire will sign a BAA)
- Support: We answer the phone when you have questions.
- Access: Customized backup schedules with easy downloading of files via ftp.
- Predictability: We offer a fixed cost.
- Flexible Configs: Including reverse proxies, block storage, tweaking underlying system configs, allow compatible plugins, custom web publishing, etc.
- Authentication: Use any approach supported by FileMaker Server (not just Claris ID, no need for extra steps to access the Data API)
- Better Servers: More resources for the same cost or save by running on a smaller instance.
- More Uptime: Multiple options to remediate downtime and the ability to work directly with LuminFire if there were to be an incident
- More data center options around the world
- FileMaker Versions: Support for the latest version of FileMaker Server (and older versions, if required for compatibility).
- Server Operating System Options: Choose Linux, Windows, or macOS to support plugins or 3rd party dependencies
- Stable: No requirement to reboot the server nightly
Cost Savings
In one example, a client currently pays LuminFire $3,000/year for licensing and hosting for 15 users. FileMaker Cloud would be $39/user/month x 15 users or $7,200/year. So we’re saving the client $4,200 annually as well as providing a better solution.
Overall, LuminFire offers greater value managed Claris FileMaker Cloud hosting for a lower cost.