How do I set up a SaaS product?

@ryanpq, Will explore in detail how to use Saas or suggest me an article about it And Saas means maintaintace of software installed on machine is digital ocean look out?? r

Depending on the configuration and access level needed for your users there are two ways you can go about this:

• Create a new droplet for each user - this provides additional flexibility and is easier to configure but is a bit more costly
• Set up each user’s software in a different virtualhost - this way you can host multiple instances of the software on each droplet lowering your costs. This requires your setup to add additional virtualhost configuration files to your web server and will likely require a restart of the service when you add a new user to a node for their virtualhost to begin accepting requests.

If going with option 1 you can create a snapshot image with your software by spinning up a droplet and setting up your default configuration, then powering it off and snapshotting it. This will allow you to spin up new droplets via the API or control panel already configured with your software.

By default new accounts do have a droplet limit of 5. This is an anti-fraud measure intended to prevent a fraudulent account from quickly creating lots of droplets to launch attacks or send spam. This limit can be increased by opening a ticket with our support team. There is no ceiling on the droplet limit (we have users with limits of 1000 droplets or more).