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Handle Saas
chiccorosso
Member
in Help
Hello,
I need to handle a small saas more or less 200 new installation at year.
It's better use every year one dedicated server or cloud?
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If by "200 installations" you mean one separate installation per customer I would strongly recommend you to reconsider if you can, and have one centralized big installation instead. I know of people who have done what you are describing and it's a an absolute maintenance nightmare for them.
To answer your question more directly, I would use multiple cloud servers and scale horizontally so you take advantage of the higher availability if one node goes down.
Previously I did what @vitobotta said, now though, I just use a dedicated machine.
Price/performance has been much better. Load times decreased. I don’t need edge stuff etc, 99 % of visitors are from the same country.
I’ve just made sure to have very good backups in place, and I can, through bash scripting & Docker, set up everything we need, including restoring backups, in 30 min tops should something go very wrong.
But yeah, do use the cloud if you absolutely cannot take any downtime.
Dedi I would say is better, we do things in pods/regions and its easier to maintain. Good ole ansible to the rescue and we can have new servers in place within 5-10 minutes, plus backups are just a click of a button.
200 installations for me it's new clients. I divided saas for year. are already centralized.
Depends on whether you need multiple locations and how heavy the instances are used. If a single dedicated server can handle all the load, I would probably go with that.