Self-hosting
Self-hosting means running software on your own infrastructure instead of paying a vendor to host it for you.
When you self-host, the software runs on a server you control, whether that is a machine in your clinic or a cloud account in your name. You are responsible for running it, and in exchange you have full control and, with open-source software, no license fee.
Self-hosting is the strongest form of data ownership. The data lives where you put it, and no vendor sits between you and it.
OpenVPM is free to self-host under the AGPLv3 license. If running servers is not how you want to spend your time, managed hosting runs the same software for you. The choice is yours.
See how OpenVPM does it
OpenVPM is the open-source veterinary PIMS. Free to self-host, with an open API and your data always exportable. The demo is live, no signup.