About Survey Solutions
Survey Solutions Headquarters: design questionnaires, manage supervisors and interviewers, collect data with the Interviewer Android app or web (CAWI), and export it. Needs a PostgreSQL database from your workspace or elsewhere.
What you get
- Interviewer app sync — Tablets sync to this server over HTTPS at the address the app gets
- Own database — Connect it to a PostgreSQL database in your workspace, create one alongside, or use an external server
- Persistent storage — Exports, uploaded files and settings live on a dedicated volume
Storage that survives a restart
Survey Solutions is deployed with a persistent volume. They keep their contents across restarts, redeploys and resource changes, and can be resized later.
- hq_data — 20 GB — Exports, uploaded files, logs and settings
How deployment works
- Click Deploy Survey Solutions and sign in to your Nexent Cloud workspace (or create one - it takes a minute).
- Name the app and adjust CPU, memory and storage if the defaults don't fit; the price updates as you go.
- Nexent provisions the containers, their persistent volumes and a
*.nexentcloud.comaddress with TLS. Add your own domain afterwards from the app's settings.
Good to know
- The first visit shows "Finish installation", where you create the administrator account.
- Point the Interviewer app at this app's HTTPS address to sync tablets.
Questions about Survey Solutions hosting
How much does hosting Survey Solutions cost?
$12.10 a month, or $120.96 a year. That covers 2 vCPU, 4 GB of memory, 20 GB of persistent storage and 200 GB of bandwidth, with TLS and an address included. Resources can be changed afterwards and the price follows them.
How long does it take to deploy Survey Solutions?
About 5 min. Nexent Cloud pulls the image, attaches the storage it needs and issues a certificate for its address; you do not configure a server, a reverse proxy or a certificate renewal.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. Every app gets an address on nexentcloud.com with TLS immediately, and you can point your own domain at it afterwards from the app’s settings - the certificate is issued and renewed for you.
Is my Survey Solutions data kept when it restarts?
Yes. Survey Solutions is deployed with a persistent volume (hq_data 20 GB), which survive restarts, redeploys and resource changes.
Can I move away later?
It is standard Survey Solutions, running in a container from the upstream image - not a fork and not a managed variant. Your data is on a volume you can back up and take with you.