Hybrid Platform

An open DXP allows you to choose a hybrid setup that suits you best: Cloud 2 Cloud, Cloud 2 Prem, Cloud 2 Remote, or Cloud 2 Cluster.

What is hybrid?

Hybrid can mean a lot of things. For example, a hybrid car gives power from an electrical and combustion-based engine. But in this case, we’re not talking about cars. We’re talking about software architecture. The concept, however, is transferable. It can mean a combination of on-premise with cloud - as service - infrastructure or a combination of one cloud provider with another cloud provider. Let’s have a look!

Why a hybrid setup?

Cloud is here to stay. Many of our clients already have tons of applications running either in public, private, or on-prem “clouds“. At Dropsolid, we focussed on running the most Open Digital Experience Platform based on Drupal, Mautic, and Apache Unomi. This also is often hosted in the cloud. Connecting these pieces brings you to a hybrid setup.

Dropsolid hybrid setups

Cloud 2 Cloud

If you plan on using Dropsolid Experience Cloud as a service - for example, for your marketing automation - we can connect the Dropsolid Experience Cloud to your cloud provider of choice. In essence, this means that we manage and host the Digital Experience Platform and connect it to your systems securely.

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Cloud 2 Prem

Dropsolid Experience Cloud has the possibility to connect to systems managed by your operations teams. This gives your the power of the platform with all its goodies (CICD, development efficiency) and gives you control over the infrastructure used for hosting. This means you manage the underlying systems, and we deploy the Digital Experience Platform’s tools (Drupal CMS or Mautic Marketing automation) to your stack.

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Cloud 2 Remote

This setup is very similar to “Cloud 2 Prem". Keep in mind that deploying to some countries or infrastructures is harder, however. China has a great firewall, which makes deploying directly harder. The banking industry requires more rigorous checks. Given a third-party setup, Dropsolid Experience Cloud can push the website to this remote environment.

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Cloud 2 Cluster

Dropsolid Experience Cloud is constantly innovating. Hosting on Kubernetes is certainly possible. We can connect the Dropsolid management platform to your cluster. You can even have a cluster on AWS and a cluster on Azure and we’ll happily provision them with all needed components.

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Cloud 2 Cloud

We manage and host Digital Experience Cloud and connect it to your cloud provider of choice.

PRO
- Zero code website generation, DNS, SSL, Git, configuration
- New site up in minutes

CON
We host for you, we do the scaling

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When to use this

This is by far the simplest solution.

When time to market is important, this is the fastest way.

Cost efficience: We succesfully manage the infra for 2000+ environments

Cloud 2 Prem

You manage the underlying systems, and we deploy the Digital Experience Cloud tools to your stack.

PRO
Full control over infrastructure

CON
- You need to manage infrastructure.
- Infra needs to be involved in changes that happen via the UI.

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When to use this

If you want to have the advantages of a DXP with the efficiency of your existing hosting setup.

If you want to keep the hosting internal but have the optimal DXP experience nonetheless.

Cloud 2 Remote

With a third-party setup, Dropsolid Experience Cloud pushes the website to your remote environment.

PRO
Increases your reach

CON
Higher complexity

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When to use this

If you want to use the advantages of a DXP and already have a trusted hosting partner.

For deployments in hard places, like behind the Chinese firewall.

For deployments to very secure infrastructures, like banking for example.

Cloud 2 Cluster

We connect Dropsolid Experience Cloud to your cluster while hosting on Kubernetes.

PRO
All the Kubernetes advantages: autoscaling and more

CON
Higher complexity

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When to use this

If important: the data says on your infrastructure in your cloud.

If you want the scaling and deployment advantages of Kubernetes.

When scaling and the linked cost efficiency really matters, and you want full control over this.

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Summing it up: hybrid solutions

A hybrid solution in software architecture refers to a combination of different infrastructures, such as on-premise and cloud, or different cloud providers. Dropsolid offers multiple types of hybrid solutions. The choice of a hybrid solution depends on your needs, such as time to market, control over infrastructure, complexity, and cost efficiency.

If you’re unsure which solution is best for you, our team of experts can help you decide which solution fits you best.

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