[cbryan]

"This is because you assume you'll run it on single server. MongoDB's documentation clearly, repeatedly, and earnestly tells people to run MongoDB on multiple servers."

Err, what?

I'm using MongoDB in production and I've looked at your documentation a bunch. After spending days with your docs open in a browser tab I can't say that it was especially clear on this point.

Perhaps I'm particularly ignorant, but I'd wager that not many other developers know that multiple MongoDB servers are currently required to achieve reasonably acceptable durability.

[angelbob]

We deployed it to production recently, and we were well aware of this. I feel their documentation is quite clear on the point.

We're also using it single-server, but only for analytics where loss of a small amount of data isn't a big deal. I've made it very clear to all and sundry that if we're going to put any data that has more value into it, we first need at least one additional server instance.

[kristina]

We really, really want people to know they should run on multiple servers. Do you have any suggestions on making it clearer? Where did you look for information about running it in production (so I can add stuff about multiple servers to that page)?

[cbryan]

Thanks for being open to suggestions. Maybe on the documentation homepage? http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Home

[kristina]

I'm reluctant to put such technical info on the documentation homepage, but I've updated it to very clearly point people to Production Notes. How does it look now?