Hello all,

I have a number of choices and questions I really need to make an get a answer for before reading any fine print on or even choosing a hosting provider yet.

At a very high level, I need to understand how I can scale my chosen host to support the Grandnode site needs.

Should I start with shared hosting, dedicated hosting orcloud hosting ?

Should I build my own infrastructure?

How important is availability and up time, should I be happy hosting in a single location or is it best to do this in multiple locations?

How much downtime per month should I be willing to accept when something goes wrong is a patch released or do we have to wait time of a copyright removed version?

What type of disaster recovery do I require, ie how quickly do you you think it would take and recover from a disaster, say you I get hacked and lost all my site  data?

What will be the best backup procedure and policy, daily, hourly, real-time?

How should I scale for load, how many users on the site at the same time , 100,000 or more?

What type of testing has been done on load testing using sites such as load impact testing?

Is there any application built in caching? or do I want the hosting platform help to create a caching environment to prevent common server requests hitting the server?

Who can I call when Grandnode application breaks, the developer?

What do I want my  hosting company to be responsible for and what will you as developer be responsible for?

What type of monitoring (email or SMS) do I require to have in place? Application, Server Services, Performance, availability?

Do I need to be PCI DSS compliant (can I storing credit card information) and if so to what level do you require my security?

Do I need the server protected from hacking and DDoS Attacks

Whilst DDoS attacks for some hosting providers are easy to stop and mitigate, DDoS attacks come in all different flavours and sizes. DDoS protection from one provider is not the same as the other, ie Do I need layer 3, 4 or 7 DDoS protection?

How much DDoS protection do I require, what size attacks do I want to be able to stop?

Why do I think the site will be attacked its because it like having any lock to mine and other peoples info safe as can be

When I say that I want a hosting provider which is going to protect the site from hacking, again this is a very general statement from a hacking point of view, I'm taking about Grandnode application hacking, SQL injection, server exploits or is SQL not needed, what are the server software vulnerabilities for man in the middle style attacks, etc and the list of possible hacking vectors goes on I only ask this as i need to cover all my bases

What is language is the software written in, how do you know your software does not have vulnerabilities today and in the future when zero day attack vectors are found?

I assume you have a database, what type of database do you have ? MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, Postgre SQL?

How do I go about protecting my server grandnode application with dedicated application servers and having the web front end servers protected by a Load Balancer?


How hard is it going to be to test your application each time the hosting environment is patched or updated?

Do I require a development, staging and production environments?

How much down time should I expect to deal with maintenance of software?

Have to work out if I do have the budget to run the site yet .


Kindest Regards and thanks for your time,

I have been able to answer some of my questions to do with Grandnode

Darryl wrote:

A: ASP.NET Core 2.0 and MongoDB - NoSQL database

Darryl wrote:

A: I will test cloud hosting as I read there is a easy setup function for it, but would still like your opinion.

Darryl wrote:

A: SDDC
PCI DSS Payment Infrastructure
This starter pack is PCI DSS 3.2 certified and it contains all the tools that you need to implement PCI DSS compliance. This includes all the necessary certificates and contracts (Attestation of compliance, the PCI DSS responsibility matrix). OVH experts are ready to answer your questions and help you navigate the requirements of PCI DSS compliance.

2 x Intel Xeon E5-1620v2
4 cores/8 threads, 3.7 GHz - 2 x 32 GB RAM

2 x 1.2 GB NFS Datastores
1 x 1.2 TB SSD-Accelerated NFS Datastore
vCenter + vSphere
Enterprise Plus license
NSX and vRealize Operations
Advanced security included
AoC (attestation of compliance)
PCI DSS contract
$1 395.6/month

Hi Darryl,

I will answer only on questions related with GrandNode, because I don't want to mislead you. The questions about DDoS attacks, infrastructure are dedicated for the hosting company, not us as a e-commerce developers. We have minimum system requirements and you should look for hosting which meets this requirements. In my opinion, cloud will be better option, but you need to be familiar with server administration.

If you will find a bug, you can write on forum or GitHub and we will fix it as soon as possible, if it's bug in the standard version of application.

In each case it's recommended to have production and test server.

Best,
Patryk

Patryk wrote:

Hi Patryk
Thanks for your reply I understand what you saying about advice on some of the questions.

I have run wordpress and joomla and installed them on xampp but this was over 5 years ago and what was then would be different now. I stopped the sites as I was sick of buying plugins that would not have support for the next version of the program.

I have a old amd 2x 16 core = 32 core system i just "need to buy a new power supply" as it needs a minimum of 1000 watts to run if I hook it up to a pfsence router (old pc quad core) hooked to standard netgear dual wan router but I would have to get to more static ips thats 120 a month each line they both would give 50Mb/20Mb on dual wan with load balance of 50Mb/20Mb  but would that be enough to hold the traffic ( them lines I quoted are both business lines and the fastest I can get where I live.

I have played with linux and bash also played with bash on windows and all windows from dos to windows 10 and windows 2000 server.

Will Grandnode run on xampp or is it not need?  As the control panel and back end functions are handy.

Will Grandnode be added as a plugin like wordpress and joomla in the future?

I just like to know what to look for in a server now and if be better to run my own server from home or rent one and if renting what do I need to know

Hi Darryl,

I'm not able to tell you, which way is better. In my opinion, if you want to create an online store, you should focus on online store and the administration, entrust to someone who only deals with the administration. You can't be a specialist in each part of the business.

If you have ready machine, you can check if it will be enough for you. It all depends on the traffic.

If I were you, I would purchase a cloud and use for example Docker, to handle it. You can check, DigitalOcean, we were testing GrandNode there and it was pretty fast, even on the cheapest machine. But all depends on the traffic, as I said before.

Best,
Patryk

Patryk wrote:

Hi Patryk thanks for that info I have never heard of digitalocean before and pricing is good too will have to give it a go.

Thanks for your time
Darryl
  

Darryl wrote:

A: Ok I found this https://grandnode.com/weekly-tips-6-improving-grandnode-performance and clears that question up for me

If you want, GrandNode also supports RedisCache, it can be useful when you want to create many servers with load balancer.

Best,
Patryk