Managed Rallly Hosting — production-ready from $15 a month
Open-source scheduling poll app for finding meeting times. Deployed on your own dedicated instance in AWS, Azure, or GCP, kept patched, backed up, and monitored by ManageStacks — standard Rallly, no lock-in.
Rallly on ManageStacks is the open-source scheduling poll tool deployed to your own cloud — flat per-app pricing from $15 a month ($29 on the Standard production plan). Create polls to find the best meeting time without exposing participant availability to third-party SaaS. A self-hosted Doodle alternative with full data ownership.
What does Rallly do, and why do teams deploy it?
Rallly is an open-source scheduling poll application that simplifies the process of finding a meeting time that works for everyone. Create a poll, propose date and time options, share the link, and participants vote on their availability. No accounts required for voters — just a name and their picks.
Unlike Doodle or When2meet, Rallly is self-hostable, ad-free, and respects participant privacy. There are no trackers, no upsells, and no data harvested from your scheduling interactions. The interface is clean, mobile-friendly, and purpose-built for the single task of converging on a meeting time. It supports time-zone detection, email notifications when participants vote, and finalization notifications when the organizer locks a time.
Self-hosting Rallly requires a Node.js runtime, a PostgreSQL database for poll storage, and SMTP configuration for email notifications. ManageStacks provisions the full stack — database, application server, SSL, SMTP relay, backups — so your team creates scheduling polls without managing infrastructure.
- Simple poll creation with multiple date and time options
- No-account voting — participants just need a name
- Automatic time-zone detection for distributed teams
- Email notifications when participants vote or polls finalize
- Mobile-responsive design for on-the-go scheduling
- Clean, ad-free interface with no tracking or data harvesting
Open-source scheduling poll app for finding meeting times
Rallly as a self-hosted alternative to Doodle and When2meet
Instead of paying per-seat fees to a SaaS vendor, teams self-host Rallly to keep full control of their data and infrastructure. ManageStacks removes the operational overhead — you get the cost and privacy benefits of open source with the reliability of a managed platform.
What does managed Rallly 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 Rallly 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 Rallly 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 Rallly run on — AWS, Azure or GCP?
For most workloads, the choice of cloud matters less than proximity: run Rallly 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 Rallly on ManageStacks
What is Rallly on ManageStacks?
Rallly is an open-source scheduling poll app. Create a poll with proposed times, share the link, and participants vote. ManageStacks hosts it on your own cloud so scheduling data stays private.
How does Rallly compare to Doodle?
Doodle is a freemium SaaS with ads, tracking, and premium upsells. Rallly is open-source, ad-free, and self-hosted — your scheduling data never leaves your infrastructure. No accounts required for participants.
Do participants need an account to vote on a Rallly poll?
No. Participants enter their name and vote directly. No sign-up, no login, no friction. Only the poll organizer needs access to the Rallly instance.
Does Rallly support time zones?
Yes. Rallly automatically detects each participant's time zone and displays proposed times in their local time. This prevents the confusion of manual time-zone conversion for distributed teams.
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