On-Premises vs. Cloud
Which is best for your business?
When you look more closely at your management processes, staff support and expertise, feature requirements and business goals, you’ll know more about which experience is right for you. Below you’ll find a breakdown of On-Premises and Cloud features and benefits to help you decide, but if you have more questions, we’re here to listen and provide a recommendation based on your unique situation.
On-Premises
You need the control or flexibility of running email software on your servers.
Are you a sender with in-house technical ability and need email delivery software running on your own servers for business or custom integration requirements? GreenArrow provides a rock-solid, high-performance On-Premises MTA Engine with an optional, user-intuitive Marketing Studio with campaign building features and reporting to enhance subscriber relationships.
Cloud
You need a turn-key, scalable email
delivery solution managed by us!
Are you a sender of relevant, permission-based email, who doesn’t want to manage servers, throttling, or deliverability details? We offer a Cloud email delivery service managed by us: an SMTP/API Email Delivery Engine plus user-intuitive, all-in-one Marketing Studio, so you can easily start to build and deliver right away, and gain subscriber insights.
Compare Server Management
On-Premises gives you complete control over server management; however — depending on your bandwidth, staff, and expertise — you may find that it’s more effective to leave server management to us. With that said, even if you do prefer On-Prem, we provide optional managed service add-ons to support your needs (indicated below by an asterisk*). Contact our sales experts to learn more about these features for On-Premises.
| On-Premises | Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Server | You own or rent | We handle for you |
| Installation and configuration of the GreenArrow software | You* | We handle for you |
Ongoing Server Administration:
|
You* | We handle for you |
| Backups | You* | We handle for you |
| Uptime | Your Responsibility |
Our responsibility (Covered by our SLA) |
| Scaling | Yes | We handle for you |
* means that we sell an optional managed service that handles this for you on your own server. Contact an expert for details.
Compare Email Deliverability
Whether you want to go deep and manage all of the deliverability settings and maintenance yourself, or lean on our experts to do this for you, we’ve got you covered.
| On-Premises | Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Server | You own or rent | We handle for you |
| Monitoring for problems and responding to them | You | We handle for you |
| Acceptable Use Policy | Your server or network provider’s AUP | Our AUP (which requires relevant, permission-based email) |
Compare other differences
Whether you want to go deep and manage all of the deliverability settings and maintenance yourself, or lean on our experts to do this for you, we’ve got you covered.
| On-Premises | Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Initial Deliverability Warmup | Slower | Faster |
| Time required to setup | Days (depending on you) | Same day |
| Pricing Structure | Per license | Per volume sent |
|
Email Marketing Software (Marketing Studio) |
Separate add-on | Comes with package |