Hosting options (Discourse hosting vs. 3rd party hosting)

It’s true we tend to push our customers towards the latest release, but we have many containers running different versions. The only servers that absolutely run on tests-passed are try and meta.

We usually have a good idea when we are introducing a commit that is risky (for example, a big feature like translation overrides) and we delay deploying all the sites before introducing the risky stuff so that we can run them for a few days on meta/try before possibly breaking for our customers.

Our enterprise customers can run whatever branch they want and even choose when to deploy their own sites via a control panel if they like. They can also provision a staging instance to test their code against.

We prefer to manage it and keep them closer to a stable release branch (with the exception of security fixes.)

Other stuff I probably should have mentioned in my original post:

  • All customers get a CDN for added front end performance

  • We do migrations for customers if they commit to a contract

  • We also do frequent backups and keep them off site

The chances are, if there is something I didn’t outline that we provide it! Just ask us :slight_smile: This was just an off the cuff response and not a detailed grid of our differences.

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