Hosting Odoo in Saudi Arabia: Odoo Online, Odoo.sh or your own server?

Where you host Odoo affects what it costs, how far you can customise it, and where your data lives. You have three main options:

1. Odoo Online

A cloud service run by Odoo. Hosting is included in the Enterprise subscription.

• Suits: companies that want to start quickly and are happy with Odoo’s standard apps.
• Pros: no servers to manage; Odoo takes care of updates and backups.
• Limits: no custom modules or third-party apps, customisation only as far as Studio allows, and not available for Community.

2. Odoo.sh

Odoo’s platform for hosting Enterprise with your own custom modules. It needs the Custom licence plan and has its own price based on resources.

• Suits: companies that need custom development but want Odoo to run the servers.
• Pros: separate staging environments, deployments through GitHub, and automatic backups.
• Limits: an extra cost on top of licences, a technical team to work with the code repository, and not available for Community.

3. Your own server or managed hosting

Running Odoo on a cloud server or in a data centre, managed by you or by a partner.

• Suits: Community users, companies that need full control or special integrations, and organisations whose data must stay in Saudi Arabia.
• Pros: complete freedom for custom development and integrations, and your choice of data location and resources.
• Limits: someone has to handle security updates, backups and monitoring, and Enterprise on your own server needs the Custom plan.

When must your data stay in Saudi Arabia?

Some government bodies and regulated sectors must host their data inside the Kingdom under the National Cybersecurity Authority’s controls, and the Personal Data Protection Law sets conditions for transferring personal data abroad. If your organisation falls into these groups, or your clients ask for it, choose hosting inside Saudi Arabia and check where the data centre is before you sign.

How to choose

• Standard apps, no custom development: Odoo Online.
• Custom development on a platform run by Odoo: Odoo.sh.
• Community, full control, or data that must stay in the Kingdom: your own server or managed hosting.

Managed hosting from Osool Systems

We run Odoo servers for our clients in two locations: the Osool Cloud, in data centres outside Saudi Arabia, or a dedicated server for each client in a data centre inside the Kingdom. Every plan includes Odoo installation and setup, your own domain with an SSL certificate, daily backups stored off the server, uptime monitoring and alerts, and system and security updates. The larger plans add a separate test copy.

Our Odoo cost calculator compares the cost of every hosting option for your project side by side. To learn more, see our cloud computing service.