I have worked on several apps on dedicated servers, it’s expensive, but the uptime is vital for some businesses. All the other apps are normally down and the enterprise app is still up. It rarely goes down. The cool thing is that you don’t have to worry about workload units once you upgrade to the dedicated server. If you are interested in switching over, I might be able to get you a discount if you go through me.
Essentially no downtime since we onboarded one of our apps on Enterprise three years ago. We had an issue with plugins and files for a couple hours around a year ago, that’s it. If you’re growing fast or already highly profitable, it’s certainly worth it.
Honestly no and I think in most cases it’s placebo
Latency due to closer region to use is also not really contributing to much of an improvement because the limiting factor in load speed seems to be returning dynamic.js which is the app JSON for the page and takes 1+ seconds (versus moving the server closer to you which might save what, 200ms round trip in a good scenario?)
Thanks, @georgecollier. In my sleuthing on non-dedicated, render-blocking JS (of which run.js is one of the main culprits) seems to be the primary issue. Basically, nothing can be output to the browser window until several JS files (dynamic.js among them) are fully downloaded and evaluated. I honestly wasn’t expecting a difference on dedicated, but thanks for confirming.
A while back when they switched from Capacity to Workload Units one of the selling points was everyone was upgraded to essentially the highest tier speed & performance