Hosting Advice

[ScottHoffman1]

Afternoon Community –

Looking for advice on map hosting options for municipal clients. In short, we have been tasked to map their water and waste water infrastructure. These municipalities do not employ nor have any GIS experience. At the end of the day, we would like to provided them with a secure online setup to view their infrastructure.

Are there any cost effective solutions to provide an online setup for them? (we do not have ArcServer, but do have ArcGIS Online)

Thanks!

[XanderBakker]

You could use ArcGIS Online, create a named user and a group for each municipality, share only within the group, if municipalities are not allowed to see each others content. Share items—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS

[Anonymous User]

If the data/service is private (not shared publicly), you could share it to a private group, but each client would need their own ArcGIS Online account to view the content in that group. You are not permitted to share a Named User from your own subscription outside your own company/organization. (The license permits some exceptions, such as contractors, but they are in essence an extension of your employee base which is not the case in the use case in this thread.)

[MicahWilliamson]

Be careful when hosting other Organization's data. Esri might ping you for it. There's no ASP license model for ArcGIS Online as there is for ArcGIS Server. Ask your rep for particulars.

That being said AGO is totally the way you want to go. Editing made easy for non GIS peeps.

[ChrisSmith7]

This is definitely something to keep in mind... ASP is also usually twice the licensing cost, but is definitely something to be mindful of if you're reselling the product.

[MatthewBaber]

This is a field that I am directly involved in.

You could have each municipality purchase their own ArcGIS Online Organization and as many user packs as they require, and then have a "shared" group between your ArcGIS Online org and theirs. Sharing Between ArcGIS Online Organizations · Esri/developer-support Wiki · GitHub

Shared groups require both parties to have ArcGIS Online organization accounts. This is a much cheaper option versus other solutions with similar outcomes, and it opens the whole suite of ESRI  mobile apps to the municipalities as well as being in-line with ESRI licensing.

[MelanieRosenberg2]

Geocortex essentials works very well! Otherwise, AGOL has tons of limitations. If you must use AGOL, I recommend at least getting portal. Cheaper than Server, more flexibility than AGOL standalone.

[Anonymous User]

Just noting that Portal for ArcGIS is licensed for internal use to an organization and would not be valid in this use case where they want to host for external organizations. (Which is why there is no ASP license for Portal). The services could be hosted by ArcGIS for Server (ASP) as has been done for years.

[ScottHoffman1]

Hi - Royce Hall​

Thanks for all the insight into my general question about hosting.

To gain some more knowledge about ArcGIS Server. Could we accomplish the above with Server Standard Workgroup license? Or does the license have to be Enterprise?

We are not a huge company so starting small and scaling larger if needed would be ideal.

[Anonymous User]

I would suggest speaking with an account manager with respect to the full use case. ArcGIS for Server Workgroup has a few limitations specified in the License Agreement which may help determine if you need Enterprise or not. See footnote numbers 28, 29, 30, 32, 38 and 39 (page 10-11 of the PDF (or page 3-4 of the E300 section) of the License Agreement). http://www.esri.com/~/media/Files/Pdfs/legal/pdfs/mla_e204_e300/english