openSIS Hosting
openSIS is a student information system for managing student records, enrollment, attendance, schedules, grades, report cards, transcripts, staff information, portals, and school communications. The self-hosted openSIS Classic Community Edition is distinct from the vendor’s current cloud-based openSIS service.
The self-hosted openSIS Classic edition is intended for schools and educational organizations that want direct control over their SIS installation and data. Administrators should confirm that its workflows, privacy controls, reporting, support, and release lifecycle meet current institutional and legal requirements before loading student records.

openSIS Overview and Features
Who openSIS Is For
The self-hosted openSIS Classic edition is intended for schools and educational organizations that want direct control over their SIS installation and data. Administrators should confirm that its workflows, privacy controls, reporting, support, and release lifecycle meet current institutional and legal requirements before loading student records.
The openSIS Classic Community Edition is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Retain the license included with the exact release. The vendor’s cloud subscriptions, commercial services, integrations, themes, and other editions can have separate terms and must not be treated as identical to the community package.
Maintenance and Compatibility Notice
openSIS Classic remains publicly available as a self-hosted community edition, while the vendor now emphasizes its separately maintained cloud service. The Softaculous package and the current Classic repository may not contain the same release. Confirm the installed version, license, security history, and supported PHP and database stack before production use or upgrade.
Student records
Maintain demographic, contact, enrollment, guardian, and academic information.
Attendance and scheduling
Track attendance and create student, staff, course, and class schedules.
Grades and transcripts
Manage gradebook information, report cards, transcripts, and academic history.
Student and parent portals
Provide role-controlled access to appropriate schedules, grades, and school information.
Staff and class management
Organize staff records, teaching schedules, rosters, and course assignments.
School communication
Use the messaging and notification functions available in the installed edition.
Choose a openSIS Hosting Plan
Compare expected users or candidates, concurrent activity, student records, question banks, reports, database growth, email, scheduled tasks, and backup retention. Choose enough capacity for normal peaks and leave room for imports, updates, and verified restores.
Pro Personal
For portfolios & blogsRenews at $7.99/mo
- 25 GB SSD Storage
- Free Domain Names
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Secure Payment Options
- SiteJet AI Website Builder
- 360 Website Monitoring
- 45 Day Guarantee
- Encrypted Offsite Backups
- Malware Scan - Included
- WordPress - Included
- cPanel Softaculous - Included
- SSL Certificates - Included
- 5 Email Accounts
- 5 Parked Domains
- 5 Sub Domains
- 1 Website
Pro Business
Growing teams & shopsRenews at $10.99/mo
- 50 GB SSD Storage
- Free Domain Names
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Secure Payment Options
- SiteJet AI Website Builder
- 360 Website Monitoring
- 45 Day Guarantee
- Encrypted Offsite Backups
- Malware Scan - Included
- WordPress - Included
- cPanel Softaculous - Included
- SSL Certificates - Included
- 25 Email Accounts
- 25 Parked Domains
- 25 Sub Domains
- 5 Websites
Pro Ultimate
For Unlimited ScaleRenews at $15.99/mo
- Unlimited SSD Storage
- Free Domain Names
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Secure Payment Options
- SiteJet AI Website Builder
- 360 Website Monitoring
- 45 Day Guarantee
- Encrypted Offsite Backups
- Malware Scan - Included
- WordPress - Included
- cPanel Softaculous - Included
- SSL Certificates - Included
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited Parked Domains
- Unlimited Sub Domains
- Unlimited Websites
Ways to Use openSIS
K–12 administration
Coordinate student records, classes, attendance, grades, and family access.
Higher-education records
Manage selected enrollment, scheduling, transcript, and academic workflows after evaluation.
Independent schools
Centralize everyday student and staff information in a self-hosted system.
Legacy SIS continuity
Maintain an established Classic installation while evaluating its support and migration needs.
Installing openSIS
RSH Web Services offers openSIS installation through Softaculous in cPanel. Use the installer first to create the application files and any required database or administrator account. For manual installation, obtain the trusted current package, follow its official instructions, protect configuration and storage paths, and apply only documented permissions. RSH Web Services can help with installation.
Hosting Requirements
openSIS Classic is a PHP and database application, but requirements differ between installer and repository releases. Confirm the exact package’s PHP version, extensions, database support, rewrite rules, writable paths, email, scheduled tasks, and resource limits before deployment. Do not apply requirements for the current openSIS cloud service to a self-hosted Classic installation.
Setup Checklist
Configure administrator credentials, staff and learner roles, academic or assessment settings, upload limits, mail, scheduled tasks, and backups. Test student-information, exam, scoring, reporting, and portal workflows with non-administrator accounts before production use.
Migrating or Upgrading openSIS
Begin with cPanel backups of the application, configuration, database when used, and all managed files. For a Softaculous-managed installation, use only the backup, clone, restore, or upgrade controls displayed for openSIS before manual steps. Follow the documented version path and test users, roles, records or question banks, reports, integrations, and scheduled tasks on a private copy. Softaculous upgrades openSIS only; it does not convert another SIS or assessment platform into openSIS.
openSIS Security
Restrict access to trusted users, use unique credentials, apply least-privilege application and filesystem roles, protect student and assessment records, and secure configuration and uploaded-content paths. Review logs, remove unused accounts, and install supported security updates after testing. Hosting protections add useful layers but cannot repair unsupported application code or prevent damage by an overprivileged account.
Backups and Recovery
Back up the application, configuration, database when used, user accounts, roles, student records or question banks, grades or results, uploaded files, reports, and configuration needed for recovery. Keep multiple dated restore points and at least one copy outside the hosting account. Restore a private copy periodically and confirm that users, roles, records or assessments, grades or results, files, reports, and scheduled tasks work together.
All openSIS Plans Include
DDoS Security Monitoring
A Distributed Denial of Service attack disrupts the operations of a website, server, or network by flooding it with unwanted Internet traffic.
WordPress Easy Install
With cPanel users can install configure, secure, update, and manage WordPress through the WP Toolkit interface.
Secure Email
Access your email program or the online Webmail interface using Secure SSL certification (HTTPS) protocol.
cPanel
With over 80 features to manage all aspects of your hosting account, website, email and domains.
Softaculous App Installer
A time and hassle-saving, automatic script installer with over 380+ scripts, and 1115 PHP classes classes like WordPress
Website Transfers
Free cPanel or WordPress website transfers with no down time, other types of migrations also available.
Spam Assassin
A program used to detect unsolicited, unwanted and virus-infected emails and stop or reject the spam messages.
FTP Access
FTP is a program that allows you to transfer files from your computer to your website.
Site Backups
Backups can be configure with the Backup Wizard in cPanel or right within WordPress.
Free SSL Certificates
Provide secure, encrypted communications between a website and an Internet, RSH Web provides free SSL certs.
openSIS Resources
Existing software and hosting resources: Softaculous, Firewall, Security and DDoS, (cPanel), cPanel Demo here.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How should roles be configured in openSIS?
Start with the fewest privileges each person needs. Separate platform administrators, course managers, instructors, reviewers, and learners, then test every role with a non-administrator account. Document who can create courses, enroll users, view grades, export reports, manage files, or change integrations. Review access regularly and remove accounts promptly when responsibilities end.
How should a first openSIS course be prepared?
Build a small pilot course before importing an entire catalog. Add clear objectives, a short content sequence, one assessment, learner instructions, and completion criteria. Enroll test users with different roles and verify navigation, mobile access, email, grading, reports, and accessibility. Use pilot feedback to standardize course templates and publishing checks for future instructors.
Can openSIS manage learner enrollment?
openSIS provides enrollment and user-management functions appropriate to its own release, but the available automation and integrations vary. Decide whether enrollment will be handled by administrators, instructors, self-registration, imports, or an external identity or student system. Test duplicate accounts, dropped learners, group membership, notifications, and privacy controls before loading production user data.
What should be tested in openSIS assessments?
Test question display, scoring, attempt limits, timing, feedback, grade calculations, completion rules, and report exports with representative learner accounts. Confirm how interrupted attempts and browser refreshes behave. If questions or results are imported, compare totals and sample records. Keep an independent copy of important question banks and document how corrections affect completed attempts.
How should student data in openSIS be protected?
Collect only information needed for the learning program, limit access by role, use secure administrator accounts, and define retention and deletion procedures. Review exports, logs, messaging, uploaded work, grades, and integrations because each can contain personal information. Apply the privacy, consent, education-record, and breach-notification rules that govern the organization and its learners.
What should I test before updating openSIS?
Create matched backups and reproduce the site in a private staging location. Follow the official path for the exact source and target versions. Test authentication, enrollments, courses, files, assessments, grades, reports, certificates, email, scheduled tasks, themes, plugins, and integrations. Confirm a rollback procedure before applying the update to the production learning site.
Does openSIS replace an independent backup system?
No. An LMS stores connected application files, configuration, database records, uploaded learning materials, assignments, and activity data. Damage to one component can make the others incomplete. Maintain dated backups outside the live account, preserve a consistent recovery point, and periodically restore a private copy to confirm that courses, users, enrollments, grades, and files remain usable.
How do I migrate openSIS to another server?
Inventory the application version, files, database, writable data directories, scheduled tasks, mail settings, domains, certificates, and integrations. Move all connected components from the same recovery point, then update only documented paths and credentials. Test the copy privately and compare users, courses, enrollments, grades, files, and reports before changing DNS or allowing production activity.
How can openSIS be recovered after a failed change?
Stop new activity and preserve the current files, database, logs, and configuration. Restore a matched backup set to a private location, then test logins, roles, courses, enrollments, assessments, grade records, uploads, reports, email, and scheduled tasks. Avoid combining files and databases from different dates. Record the failure cause before attempting the change again.
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