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Salesforce has a lot of trial or developer orgs, which would be quite expensive if you tried to host them all as some sort of VM in a cloud hosting companies.
by nitwit005 6y ago
Salesforce has a lot of trial or developer orgs, which would be quite expensive if you tried to host them all as some sort of VM in a cloud hosting companies.
I assume most of them end up as a few rows in some set of DBs, which is far cheaper.
- snuxoll 6y agoSalesforce charges and arm and a leg for extra sandbox instances anyway, and at that scale you aren’t paying Amazon for compute either. A full-copy sandbox past the included one for Unlimited Edition orgs is something like 30% your annual spend.
- nitwit005 6y agoYou can fill out a form and cause a free org to exist on their main site, so hundreds or thousands probably get created a day. It looks like they expire in 30 days, so if you spun up an app and DB for each it would get expensive quick.