One server or distributed setup?

[ddd793]

I am using the plugNmeet in a virtual machine running Docker containers (redis, mariadb, livekit, livekit-ingress, plugnmeet-api).

Virtual Machine Configuration:
Processor - 4 core of Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz
RAM - 8 Gb
SSD drive

Would it be beneficial to distribute Docker containers across different virtual machines? For example, running a database on a separate machine could potentially improve stability?

How many simultaneous users should I split into different servers to ensure optimal performance?

[jibon57]

Separating services into different machine will always give better results. Specially separating hosting of recorder & livekit. Having dedicated server increase the ability of the application. But you can always test before taking decision based on number of users you are going to host.