Jitsi Hosting

Jitsi is an open-source voice and video communication platform. It offers the features and functionality of mainstream software such as Zoom or Google Meet as a free and 100% private alternative.

As with any open-source software, the code is freely available to use and modify as you see fit, allowing you to host Jitsi on your own Virtual Private Server. This also comes with the significant benefit of not having to share your sensitive data with tech giants such as Google, Meta, or Microsoft. For certain businesses requiring adherence to stringent data compliance standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, or CCPA, an open-source dedicated server or VPS hosting solution is ideal.

Jitsi uses ephemeral meeting rooms, meaning they only exist during the meeting and are then gone. There are no records of your meeting unless you specifically choose to record them. This makes Jitsi ideal for daily internal communication. You can create meeting rooms simply by giving your team or one-on-one meeting room a name, such as https://rooms.yoursite.com/marketing or https://meetings.yoursite.com/john-jane-doe.

Your users don't need to make an account or provide any personal information. Not even an email address. You choose the meeting room name and enter your display name of choice. You can use your full name, "John Doe", your first name, "John", your initials "JD", your job title, "Senior Developer", or as anything you like, such as "Gandalf the White".

As a self-hosted solution, Jitsi comes with numerous advantages over SaaS services such as Zoom:

• It is completely free! There are no recurring per-user fees or premium add-on fees.
• Jitsi offers features on par with premium paid offerings for most competitors without zero cost.
• You can host a call of up to 75 participants per meeting room with no meeting time limit.
• Jitsi Videobridge technology passes everyone’s video and audio to all participants rather than mixing them.
• No software installations are required. Simply use a browser like Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave or Opera.
• No personal info, accounts, or offering complete and unparalleled levels of security and privacy.
• You can use your Jitsi server to also host your website, password, and file-sharing services as well.
• Only two Zoom premium users negate the costs of fully managed Jitsi hosting, with no added per-user costs.
• Managed Jitsi hosting comes with your very own virtual IT team. Ready when you need their help the most.

Jitsi is used for group voice and video communication, with in-built screen-sharing and collaboration tools. The focus on privacy and security eliminates the need for any software or applications, allowing users to use any Chromium-based browsers for a temporary meeting room session. In professional environments, Jitsi can be used in a multitude of ways:

• Sales calls and demos with external parties
• One-on-one or group meetings and video calls
• Document and project collaboration with screen-sharing
• All-day voice chat for teams, allowing office-level communication for remote work

As an open-source software option, Jitsi is ideal for businesses and organizations with strict compliance requirements. Any business requiring HIPAA, GLBA, GDPR, CAN-SPAM, or CCPA compliance will benefit. Jitsi hosting gives you full control and total anonymity for both your users and the meetings themselves.

Services such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams have an established brand, large marketing budgets, and mainstream appeal. This comes with a polished user experience, better-than-average customer support, and a significant price tag per user. They also have complete access to your data and require personal information of each user logging into their platforms.

Our Jitsi hosting offers a less established service but with the same core features as premium paid products of Jitsi competitors. The weakness of Jitsi, as with any open-source software, is the high required technical know-how to install and set up the platform. Fortunately, fully managed hosting eliminates and even improves upon this typical downside. Not only do you have a team of IT experts who help you with this process, but they do all the work for you! This team is available 24/7, even after your business is closed.

With exclusive use of premium latest-generation equipment and multiple levels of redundancy, your private voice and video chat can run around the clock.

With an entry level cost of $159.90 per user per year, going up to $269.90 for the more feature-rich plan, Zoom has a minimal starting operating cost of $319.80 per year for two people for their lowest-tier paid voice and video chat plan. As your team grows, so does this expense at a linear rate, though with more people involved, the likelihood of additional features rises, pushing everyone to that $269.90 plan. After you grow past a certain point, Zoom will require you to upgrade to their “Enterprise” plan, where the pricing is hidden and requires a call with their sales team.

Worse still, these higher tier packages do not include all the features but offer the ability to purchase over a dozen add-ons” ranging from $25 per user per year to a whopping $600 per user per year. That’s not even mentioning half a dozen “contact sales for pricing” add-ons, that are likely even more pricey.

The cost for a platform like Zoom can quickly balloon, and it would potentially be worth the price, were it not for the fact that Jitsi exists with matching features and at no cost! Not just free with add-ons. Not even free for a promotional period. It is 100% free. All the time. Forever.

As an open-source project, you get the code you can not only customize as you see fit, but it also allows you to choose your Jitsi hosting and retain control of any sensitive business meetings and information.

The free Zoom plan is infamous for its 40-minute meeting length cap, while Jitsi doesn't use any duration limitations for your meetings. You can leave it on all day, every day, and mute your microphone until a colleague calls out - giving that in-the-office feel while your team is working remotely.

Finally, there have been issues lately where Zoom has been caught training its A.I. using customer data. While the company says they have taken steps to remedy this situation, no opt-out options exist for service-generated data collection. With Jitsi, you have access to the source code, meaning no one can see anything you don't allow.