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So you wanna go on prem (2016)

-prem do ya If you run a successful SaaS platform, at some point someone is going to come to you with the question: can I run it myself? If you’re considering offering a private version of your SaaS, this post might be for you. At this point, I’ve worked for a few companies that are SaaS vendors.

I can clearly remember cases of having to support a production system via Microsoft Lync over a customer’s workstation (like the actual one the user used on a daily basis) via an SSH client. We keep having periodic timeouts (Go find out what happens to your carefully tuned distributed system has its entire OS paused while the hypervisor buffers all memory and network as the VM is live migrating) It’s made worse by the fact that if you can’t artificially throttle load for a private deploy, it can quickly become undersized and you’re in a firefighting mode trying to scale it under duress.

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