Launching a SaaS product means customers depend on your software every day. The infrastructure decisions you make early are hard to change later, so make them deliberately.
Domains
- yourproduct.com for the marketing site.
- app.yourproduct.com for the application.
- Optional subdomains for the API, status page and documentation.
Register your product domain at IDX, and consider registering common misspellings.
Servers
Start with one or two cloud VPS servers: one for the application, one for the database as you grow. You get guaranteed resources, full root access and snapshots. When load justifies it, add application servers behind a load balancer, or move the database to a dedicated server.
File storage
Customer uploads belong on object storage, so application servers stay stateless and easy to replace.
Separate the two kinds of email: team mailboxes on business email, and transactional email (sign-ups, resets, notifications) through a sending service authenticated for your domain.
From day one
- Automated daily backups stored off the server, with restore tests.
- Staging and production environments.
- Monitoring and alerts on the application, not just the server.
- HTTPS everywhere and secrets kept out of your code.
Plan for growth
Keep the application stateless, the database on fast storage, and deployments automated. Read server capacity planning for sizing.
Help from IDX
Our engineers can design your infrastructure, and our managed services team can run it. IDX also builds SaaS products: share your plans.
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