A small company can often operate infrastructure through direct communication. One person changes a firewall rule, another upgrades a database, someone
At a small company, infrastructure monitoring can work surprisingly well without much structure. One engineer knows the servers. A founder receives an
Two hosting options are sitting in a spreadsheet. One costs noticeably less per month. The other costs more but includes a different support model, more
A hosting provider that was a good fit three years ago may become a constraint without ever becoming an obviously bad provider. The business changes.
A growing online business may have years of successful backup notifications and still be unprepared for a serious recovery. Databases may be copied every
A growing online business can spend years with one hosting provider without treating that dependency as a problem. The provider may be reliable, the technical
A business can run successfully from one hosting region for years. Then a change in its risk profile makes the original arrangement difficult to defend.
Production access is rarely a governance project when an online business is small. One founder may know the hosting account, another engineer may have
Downtime is often discussed as a technical metric. For a growing SaaS business, it is a financial and operational event involving lost transactions, emergency
A single server can support a SaaS business surprisingly well. The reason to move beyond it is not that the architecture looks too simple—it is that one