Considerations

Recommendations and considerations

Recommendations and considerations for CHT production hosting

For smaller deployments a single-node instance can be used, for larger deployments a multi-node cluster is generally recommended.

Consideration	Single node CouchDB	Multi-node clustered CouchDB
Less than 4 000 users	✔	✔
More than 4 000 users	❌	✔
Less than 10 000 documents per day	✔	✔
More than 10 000 documents per day	❌	✔
Seamless upgrade with multi-node docker compose	✔	❌
Seamless upgrade with multi-node kubernetes/k3s	✔	✔

Consideration	Cloud provider	Bare Metal
Data needs to be in-country	❌	✔

Last updated on May 5, 2025