Rocket.Chat

About Rocket.Chat Stack

Rocket.Chat exists for teams that want the functionality of Slack, HipChat, or Microsoft Teams without handing their internal conversations, files, and search history to a third party. Intuz’s Rocket.Chat AMI deploys the platform on your own AWS EC2 instance with Apache, MongoDB, Node.js, Mongo Express, and Webmin already configured, so the messaging, video calls, and file sharing your team relies on daily run on infrastructure you control end to end.

That control matters more for some teams than others. If you’re in a regulated industry, working with client data under an NDA, or simply uncomfortable with a SaaS vendor indexing years of internal chat history, self-hosting removes that variable entirely while still giving you two-factor authentication and end-to-end encryption on the calls and messages themselves.

Because the underlying data lives in MongoDB, and Mongo Express ships with the stack, your team (or whoever manages the instance) can inspect message data, manage backups, and troubleshoot storage growth directly, rather than filing a support ticket with an external vendor and waiting.

Rocket.Chat’s plugin and integration ecosystem is also large enough that most teams don’t miss the SaaS alternative’s app store, custom bots, webhooks, and theming are all available on the self-hosted version too. If your team also needs face-to-face video meetings alongside chat, consider pairing this with the Jitsi Meet AMI for a fully self-hosted communication stack without licensing either tool per seat.

For a mid-size team replacing Slack, the combination of unlimited history, no per-seat licensing, and full data ownership tends to be the deciding factor once the initial setup is behind them.

Key Features of Rocket.Chat Stack

• Intuz Rocket.Chat is a pre-configured, ready to run image for running Rocket.Chat on Amazon EC2
• Free and open-source team chat slack alternative
• Chat is integrated with webmin for file transfer and mongo-express
• Chat also has scripts for Password recovery, Snapshot, Webmin and Update Management.

Rocket.Chat Paid Stack

Intuz Rocket.Chat has apache2, mongo, nodejs, mongo-express, webmin and scripts which make it easy for you to use Rocket.Chat