deployment

this guide covers production deployment for okommerce. for development, just run dotnet run from the source.

recommended topology

a typical production deployment: 2× app servers (Windows + IIS), 1× SQL Server (with backup replica), 1× Hangfire worker, CDN in front of static assets. small-to-medium stores can run everything on one box.

SSL / TLS

terminate SSL at IIS or your load balancer. okommerce will refuse to issue cookies over insecure transport in production mode.

backups

back up SQL Server nightly. back up the uploaded media folder daily. test restores monthly. okommerce has a built-in admin export tool for config-only backups.

scaling

vertical scaling (bigger box) works up to ~5,000 orders/day. beyond that, scale horizontally with a load balancer + sticky sessions or shared distributed cache.