Several confluence instances in the same company

[frithjof falck]

I have a question for you experts. Are there any reason to have several confluence licenses within the same company (data center)? E.g. for security reasons?

Or would it be jus as "safe" to have one licenese and let's say several nodes. Both downtime and security considerations.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Hi Frithjof,

I've got many clients who have more than one Confluence system.  There are many reasons for it, but the main one is simply that one department has no need to see the documentation that another has generated. 

Putting it all in a single instance would be sensible in terms of licencing and maintenance, but that means that there's a lot of noise in the system (I work in department A, I don't care what departments B and C have written) and as Confluence's search function is bad, you would see a lot of people running searches that lands on noise instead of what they need.

[frithjof falck]

Good point. I see the problem with the search function. Maybe something you could solve with space permissions.

But that will also mean they have to pay for each instance?