We are opening a new store in the United Arab Emirates. What would be the optimal solution for us to locally run an ERPNext server on Windows? We plan to move or connect to the cloud after a term.
Docker
Production image (OVA)
WSL
Question 1: Does using the production image in VirtualBox risk our critical data from being corrupted if we accidentally lose electricity that abruptly shuts the instance down?
Question 2: Is using docker only meant for development purposes?
Question 3: Will WSL do fine to host an ERPNext server since it is new to Windows?
Note: The data is critical, we cannot afford to lose it.
Electric interruption can harvest your data + damage your computer.
Use UPS (uninterruptible power supply).
It is the only solution agains power loss, or rent a server in a server park, provider may taking care of the backups and to run the server, depending of the fee.
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I run my small shop like this since 2011 and reading the many technical issues raised on this forum I am glad never attempted self implementation