A deep, calm lagoon with a single island anchored at its centre and long soft shadows.

Feature

Hosting, without the trap

A virtual tour is not a file: it is a service that must stay online for years, load fast on mobile, and outlive the contractor who produced it. Those three requirements decide almost everything.

Updated August 2026

0: view quota, however popular
0: tour expiry date
0: plugin for the visitor to install
UE: API, database and storage

Why it is not just a file

A 250-megapixel panorama weighs several hundred megabytes. Served as-is it is unusable on mobile - hence tiling, which is real infrastructure work.

Each panorama is cut into levels of detail, like a map: the visitor first receives a light image, then only the tiles for the area they are looking at. That is what lets a tour start in one second on a phone - and exactly what a file dropped on a server does not do.

Add access revocation for protected tours, purging old versions after a re-render, cookie-free analytics, and delivery from a network close to the visitor. None of these bricks is visible; all are sorely missed when absent.

Self-hosting or platform

The honest comparison, including where self-hosting wins.

Our format
PlatformMoorea
Direct cost
A monthly subscription, all in
Real cost
None on the operations side
Mobile performance
Included - progressive tiles and edge caching
Right choice for…
A pilot or venue that wants to publish, not administrate
Other format
Self-hosting
Direct cost
Seemingly low - one server does it
Real cost
Time: tiling, updates, backups, incidents
Mobile performance
Build it yourself (tiles, cache, CDN)
Right choice for…
A technical team with strong hosting constraints

The tour must outlive its contractor

This is the most important point on this page, and the least technical. A tour hosted on the photographer’s personal account disappears with them.

The scenario is mundane: a venue commissions its tour, it lives on the contractor’s account, and three years later the contractor has changed careers, raised the hosting fee, or simply stopped replying. The link dies, and with it the printed QR codes and the links from the website.

We designed workspaces so that cannot happen: a tour can be transferred from one workspace to another, with its analytics and its leads, without changing its public address. The pilot keeps their « Made by » credit; the venue keeps its tour. Nobody is held hostage.