When we migrated a clients app to dedicated in the past our biggest challenge was with Plugins developed using Plugin editor.
Most failed with App Busy Error. When we reached out to Bubble they indicated that even at Dedicated Clusters, plugins were still hosted in a shared resource. This meant the plugin could not scales to tens of operations per second or minute. Didn’t figure out how many operations per second caused the issue. {Was a Web3 app.}
The solution to this was to use API connector. Hopefully your over 150+ plugins don’t become your biggest hurdle.
Thank you very much for your answer, currently out of the 150 plugins we have, around 30 or so were created by ourselves,
Thank you very much for sharing this information,
Therefore, we will have to allocate a little time to redo these plugins in the API Conector,
Great thread, we’re also planning to move our app/apps to a dedicated plan. The prices mentioned by @ricardopipeimob seem familiar to me as well. For a location in Europe, these are comparable.
However, I do have my doubts. How are you all handling this, and what’s your perspective? When fully transitioning to Bubble, you become 100% reliant on their business operations. You invest a lot of time and money into development, but what if Bubble decides to: sell the platform, multiply the pricing by 10, or simply go bankrupt? I also see that @BrianHenderson is 100% dependent on Bubble for their business operations. Do you ever lose sleep?
We generate millions in revenue in our shop. We’re now testing a version on Bubble for the first time, and it works beautifully. However, funneling my revenue through a Bubble platform and becoming 100% dependent on it is a risk.
Sure, there’s platform risk. That’s a fair question to ask and an important one to answer for your company’s operations. But I feel that for us and our particular situation it’s worth the trade off for speed of development and ease of maintenance.
If you’ve already got millions and know how to build an app with portable code that you can take anywhere you like then by all means pursue that if Bubble as a platform concerns you. Makes sense to me! Since I would be dependent on traditional developers building it for me if I went that route, ironically I feel that I would have less control over our app in the long run. There were a lot of unknowns when designing and building our app; it can be very expensive to pay someone else to build something for you when you don’t already know what the final form should be. A lot of people say that Bubble’s great for building the MVP and then you should pursue having your app built “for real” by more traditional means, but for our app I just haven’t seen a need for that yet, if ever.
From the start I’ve seen the Bubble team take actions to stay profitable and improve their platform for longevity. I’m satisfied with what I’ve observed and now that I’m on a dedicated server plan then I’m even more confident. I can’t fully predict what someone else may do in the future but for the here and now it seems like a reasonable assumption that the Bubble leadership team will continue on in the same fashion that they have been. If I see evidence otherwise then I’ll reassess at that point.
Thanks for your reply! It’s good to read your perspective. We’re actually facing similar challenges. We are an e-commerce company focused on print products. It’s a volatile market, and the ordering process and everything that comes with it is complex. At the moment, we have a Magento shop developed by third parties. However, the time-to-market is long, and the process is quite costly. We’re currently testing our own shop, built in Bubble (www.monsterprint.online). It took nearly a year to build the foundation, but it’s up and running now. Debugging and further development are now a breeze. And the big advantage is, we come up with the ideas in-house and also develop them in-house. There’s no need to hand it off to a programmer, which makes the whole process so much more flexible.
So yes, entrepreneurship comes with risks, but you have to weigh them carefully. I plan to gain a better understanding of Bubble and the organization by traveling from the Netherlands to attend BubbleCon at the end of this month.
I use bubble for the smaller apps that I build for customers and my current employer. Yeah still a side hustle. However there is an app that I need to build that I believe can only be a success. I’d like to use bubble but the app must be primarily mobile and it must operate offline. As far as I know I can’t use bubble to build it.
IMO they are losing out on so much revenue by not prioritizing their offline mobile effort. I know I’ve not been able to secure accounts for that issue alone.
Offline will open a whole other can of worms for the Bubble team and us users. I’d rather they focus on just getting online functionality beyond our expectations.
Imagine having to troubleshoot both online and offline parts of your app and file bug reports to Bubble. Shudder
You’re going to love your new Bubble Experience and performance.