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Cloud, on-premises or air-gapped: choosing how to run Cargovate
The ways to run Cargovate — managed cloud (shared or dedicated), on-premises, and air-gapped — what each asks of you, what each is good for, and the trade-offs, so you can pick before a procurement review rather than during one.
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Transcript
Some organisations can put freight data in a shared cloud. Some can't, for contractual, jurisdictional or security reasons. Cargovate runs either way, and every option runs the same platform.
There are three ways to run it: in our cloud, on your own servers, or air-gapped, with no network path out at all.
In the managed cloud, we run it. It's the fastest way to start: nothing to install, nothing to operate, and updates are applied for you.
The trade-offs: you share the platform with other customers, kept apart in the database itself, and the region is fixed: the European Union, in Finland. Updates arrive on our schedule, not yours.
If that region or that sharing is the problem, there's a dedicated instance. We still run it, but for you alone: your own database, backups and upgrade window, in the region your data must stay in. It costs more than the shared cloud, and there's still nothing for you to operate.
On-premises, Cargovate runs inside your own estate under licence, against your own database, with your own backup and retention policy. Data goes out only through connections you switch on, such as carrier tracking or your own mail server.
The trade-off is that you run it. You provide the host and the database, your team applies each update from a signed release bundle, and backups and monitoring are yours.
Air-gapped is the same signed bundle, installed with no outbound network path from the server. The licence is checked offline, so it needs none.
What you give up is anything that has to reach outside: carrier tracking feeds and email notifications are switched off, updates arrive by controlled media, and maps show countries and coastlines rather than streets.
Whichever you choose, it's the same product, and your record is yours: if you stop using Cargovate, you leave with your complete history.
The deployment page and the Deployment Architecture document at cargovate.com set out each option in detail. It's usually answerable in one conversation.