Managed Matomo Hosting — production-ready from $15 a month
Full-featured open-source web analytics. Deployed on your own dedicated instance in AWS, Azure, or GCP, kept patched, backed up, and monitored by ManageStacks — standard Matomo, no lock-in.
Matomo is a full-featured open-source web analytics platform that gives you complete data ownership and GDPR compliance. ManageStacks deploys Matomo with MySQL, automated backups, and archiving pre-configured.
What does Matomo do, and why do teams deploy it?
Matomo is the leading open-source web analytics platform, used by over 1 million websites as a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Analytics. It provides comprehensive analytics including visitor tracking, conversion funnels, heatmaps, session recordings, A/B testing, and ecommerce analytics while keeping 100% of the data under your control.
Matomo supports both JavaScript tag-based and log analytics tracking, with a plugin ecosystem of over 100 extensions. It offers configurable privacy controls including IP anonymization, consent management, and data retention policies, making it suitable for organizations with strict regulatory requirements.
- Full visitor analytics with real-time reporting
- Conversion funnels, goals, and ecommerce tracking
- Heatmaps, session recordings, and A/B testing
- 100+ plugins for extended functionality
- Configurable privacy with IP anonymization
- Tag manager and log analytics support
Full-featured open-source web analytics
What does managed Matomo hosting cost?
Flat per-app pricing, in your chosen AWS, Azure, or GCP region. No per-user pricing — a busy deployment costs the same as a quiet one.
Starter
Staging and internal tools. Dedicated instance, TLS, daily backups, managed upgrades.
Standard
Production workloads. Adds monitoring, staging environment, region choice, priority support.
Business
High-traffic and compliance workloads. Adds a high-availability replica and same-day support.
24×7 SRE retainer
Round-the-clock on-call across every hosted application, for teams that need a pager answered at 3am.
When is self-hosting Matomo the right answer instead?
“Managed hosting is not always the correct call.”
Self-host when a platform team already runs the infrastructure and on-call rotation to operate Matomo at genuinely low marginal cost. Self-host when compliance requires an air-gapped or on-premises deployment that no hosted option can satisfy. And self-host when the deployment depends on heavy customisation with a fast internal build-deploy loop, because an internal release process will beat any managed change process.
For everyone else — teams whose engineers have better things to do than shepherd upgrades — managed hosting is cheaper than the hours it replaces.
Which cloud should Matomo run on — AWS, Azure or GCP?
For most workloads, the choice of cloud matters less than proximity: run Matomo in the same cloud and region as the applications and data it talks to, because every request between them adds a round trip. The underlying compute performs equivalently across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
In practice, an existing cloud footprint decides it. All plans support all three clouds, and moving regions later is a scheduled migration, not a rebuild.
Deepest managed-service catalog, default when there's no existing footprint
Best fit for teams already on Microsoft 365 or Entra ID
Strongest for data/analytics-adjacent workloads
Every plan supports AWS, Azure, and GCP — region choice included.
Common questions about Matomo on ManageStacks
Can Matomo on ManageStacks replace Google Analytics?
Yes. Matomo provides all core analytics features including page views, sessions, referrals, campaigns, ecommerce tracking, and custom dimensions. You can import historical Google Analytics data during migration.
Does ManageStacks configure Matomo's report archiving?
Yes. ManageStacks sets up Matomo's cron-based report archiving so that dashboards load quickly even with high-traffic sites. Archiving runs on a schedule without impacting live tracking performance.
How does ManageStacks handle Matomo plugin updates?
ManageStacks manages Matomo core updates and ensures plugin compatibility. You can install and update plugins through the Matomo admin UI, and ManageStacks ensures persistent storage for all plugin data.
Run Matomo without carrying the pager
Subscribe through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace. We handle provisioning, SSL, monitoring, backups, updates, and security. From $15/mo.