You can decide if you would like to take care of the hosting on your own internal server, or if you would let us take care of it.

 

Option 1: To have EZ-MES on your own internal server

It is no problem for us to install the application on your own internal server, as we have done for numerous customers. One condition is that you must give us remote terminal access for the period required to install and update the application. Learn about the server specification and required software licenses to run EZ-MES.

We do not offer a lease option when the software is installed on your own internal server. In that case you have to purchase a perpetual license.
 

Option 2: We do the hosting for you

We can also host our applications on Amazon Web Services. This offers great scalability and flexibility to change your plan at any time you requre. So if you don't know which plan to use, just start on the lowest level, and upgrade as needed. We have developed our own Amazon Machine Images with EZ-MES pre-installed. These Machine Images can be launched within an hour.

Amazon Web Services

For our Manufacturing Automation applications we use the Amazon Web Services 'Cloud Computing'. We have extensive experience with the following Amazon services:

  • EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
  • Automated Snapshots Backups
  • CloudWatch (automated server health monitoring)
  • S3
  • CloudFront
  • SimpleDB

Computing on the Cloud is easier than you think. We managed to migrate a rented server with SSL to an Amazon instance in less than 2 days. We now are saving money and are no longer and stuck with 6 month or 1 year commitments, reducing our risk of paying for something we might not need.

This also gave us the ability to scale up much quicker. It used to take us about 1 week to get a server online and running for a customer and now we can launch a new server in less than an hour. These benefits and the reliability has made it a Ideal solution for us and would be an Ideal solution for many other companies.

We can help you get running using Amazon EC2 and S3 services. We can also go over the pricing and cost involved in hosting on an Amazon Instance. We have experience in using both LAMP and MS type instances and getting them running quickly. We can help you in your move to Amazon.

Security

Amazon has extensive security measures in place to protect your data. 

Using the Amazon Firewall Features we can lock down the system by only allowing specific IP addresses to access the system. Using this security feature we can make sure that all your applications are protected and can only be accessed by you.

 

Additional Options

FTP Access for Backups

In the case where you would like to create backups from the daily backup files we generate, we can install FTP Server Software on your server instance, this will give you FTP access to the Daily Backup files. This FTP service can be restricted to just a single IP address and will have user name and password authentication. Set-up and licensing fees are $600 a year for FTP Access.

 

Discovery Contract Hosting

It can be hard to make a decision on which hosting solution to purchase for EZ-MES. We can help you to make this decision by evaluating your specific situation and your own unique requirements. The deliverable for this will be an evaluation document.

  • This document will provide you with the criteria to judge not just us but any vendor
  • You will be better equipped to make a decision
  • If you decide to purchase our product, the paid fee for the Discovery Contract will be discounted form your purchase price

We hate to break it to you, but we don't like to do a lot of work for free, so the price we charge for this evaluation document is $2,500 (This will be discounted in the case where you purchase EZ-MES).