Self-hosting best practices

Host Operational on a VPS

A cheap VPS will give you the best bang-for-your-buck performance.

In our tests with Hetzner’s Ampere CPU line, we found Operational to perform extremely well.

Fork instead of git clone

Fork the project and git clone from there. There are two upsides:

• If we accidently push a breaking change, you won’t be affected.
• Easier to migrate from. Once we release a version, just pull upstream for the new version number.

Increase REMOVE_EVENTS_AT env var

This env var controls when events are flushed out of the system.

If you’re using Operational as a audit log or something similar, you want to increase this to 2-3 years.

2 years = REMOVE_EVENTS_AT="730"