Self Hosting in CHT 4.x

Details for hosting the CHT on self run infrastructure

Recommendations and considerations

For smaller deployments a single node CouchDB instance can be used, for larger deployments a multi-node CouchDB 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	❌	✔

Hosting the CHT on self run infrastructure with horizontally scaled CouchDB nodes

Hosting the CHT on self run VMware infrastructure for multiple CHT-Core projects that utilize horizontally scaled CouchDB nodes

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