Monica Personal CRM | Support by cloudimg

## Monica by cloudimg

Monica is the popular open source personal relationship manager, a private, self-hosted way to organise your life around the people you care about. Record the contacts, family members and relationships that matter, log your conversations and activities with them, set reminders for birthdays and follow-ups, and keep track of gifts, debts, tasks, notes and important dates. Monica is a Personal CRM, not a business or sales tool. This Amazon Machine Image delivers Monica fully installed and configured, so a complete personal relationship manager is running within minutes of launch. The current release available is Monica 4.1.2.

## Application Stack

The image runs Monica, a Laravel application, on PHP 8.3 with OPcache, served by nginx with php-fpm. MariaDB provides the database and the front-end assets are precompiled. The Laravel task scheduler runs every minute through a systemd timer for reminders and recurring jobs. Database migrations are already applied, so customers land directly on the sign-in page.

## Secure First Boot

On the first boot of every instance a one shot service generates a fresh Laravel application key and hash salt, a fresh MariaDB password and a fresh administrator password, unique to that instance, and writes the administrator password to a root only file. The instance's own address is set as the application URL automatically and open registration is disabled. No shared or default credentials ship in the image.

## Ready To Use

The Monica code tree, web server and database are all configured, with application files, uploads and the database on dedicated, independently resizable storage volumes. Browse to the instance address, sign in as the administrator, and start adding the people in your life.

## cloudimg Support

cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this image, covering Monica deployment, upgrades, performance tuning, email and reminder configuration, backups, storage sizing and database administration.