Server to Data Center migration

[Dominika Kuraś-Moskwa _Deviniti_]

Hello Community

All former Server users, why did you decide to migrate to Data Center? Or for those who haven't decided yet, why do you consider DC or you give up on this option?

[christoph.ackermann@marquardt.com]

Well it was simply the solution that is causing the least pain/effort. You just change the license.

Main downside is the massive price increase and the fact that you no longer "own" the product cause it's now only a subscription model.

[Vickey Palzor Lepcha]

More stability and availability for sure. But the new price tags are alarming - makes budget owners start looking for alternative solutions.

Though new features have been added for free - but ultimately it isn't free as the tool costs more.

[Ben Robbins]

We were switching to DC before they announced the end of life for server anyway. Jira is a business critical system for us and so the move to DC was going to help with availability of the service and scaling to demand.

[Steve Letch]

Decide? They essentially rebranded Server to DC and added some extra features.

[Marc-Philip Blath]

Kinda, because we were forced to. DC does not offer so much innovation/features that is worth the huge price increase (including all add-ons which also went up). Just Cloud is a lot more pricey and we have no control over our data and interfaces.

I'll give DC ~5 more years until they also will announce a support end for all on-premises systems with their Cloud as the only solution.

We are currently still running Jira Server for 6.000 users on a single VM (only the DB on a separate system) without any problems.

[Reese]

God sake, don't give me a heart attack - Atlassian really wants to hold people hostage with their "Cloud" flagship product and remove all self-hosting options.

[Craig Nodwell]

All the tools in our delivery pipeline are in house self hosted.  This was the decision made by the team responsible for those tools.  Moving the issue tracker into the Cloud made no sense while the rest of the systems are all in house.  That was about 1 year ago, so for the past year all focus has been put into making DC work with the Delivery Pipeline Feedback Loop.  Had they chosen Cloud the focus of that work would have been very different.

[lstlaurent]

We would probably migrate our Jira and Confluence Servers to DC, if tiers below 500 users were available. The price tag for 500 users is too high, and we have no intention to move to the Cloud.

Status Quo for now.

We may look for alternatives in the future.

[Wayne Harvey]

Our university switched to DC in 2021.

It has allowed us to continue to run the service on Premise as well as giving us scalability and performance improvements over a single operating server.

We also use plugins to extend the service offering we have.

Right now Cloud is not an option because it is prohibitive in costs as well as potential lost capability to what we use right now.

[Todd Alden]

We moved to DC long before EOL for server.  We needed the scaling with the multiple nodes of DC.  We remain on DC (as opposed to moving to Atlassian Cloud) because we want to have data on our own servers (security)

[Bill Sim]

Similar to several other comments, or a mix:

• Our IT dept only use software with support available. Thus we were forced/coerced to move to DC.
• Cloud is not, and probably will never be, an option for us. (Data sovereignty, configuration/customisation control.) We seriously are considering migrating off Atlassian as they incessantly beat the 'move to cloud' drum.
• The move from Server to DC is easy in that it is 'just' a license change.
• The pricing is nuts. 

[Els Bassant]

We did not so much decide as that we were forced because we want our products to be supported. As for why DC and not Cloud:

• Our InfoSec (Information Security) teams had various concerns about Cloud security, as well as data ownership and hosting. 
• Missing features, or lack of customisation options on Cloud. Although to be fair, Atlassian has been hard at wrk adding many of the missing elements.

This analysis was done 2-3 years ago and will be done again in the future. If Cloud looks more favourable then we will reconsider.

On the upside, the better Automation options and Advanced Roadmaps are great.