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Eric Adler's avatar
Eric Adler
Iron Contributor
Jan 24, 2017

Best Practices for Site Collection Resource Settings?

Looking for best practices on Server Resource Quota settings for site collections.

 

Default is 300.

 

Best to keep that for most site collections?

 

We have the publishing site, very popular, in one site collection...should the quota be increased for that site?

 

How does Office 365 Groups impact this number? As a group creates a new site collection, I assume this comes out of our allocated resources.

 

Other factors that would indicate that default number should go up or down?

 

Thanks!

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7 Replies

  • Eric Adler's avatar
    Eric Adler
    Iron Contributor
    Jan 25, 2017

    My understanding of Resource Quota it it is the compute power you are allocated for you "farm" or "virtual farm" (v-farm)?

     

    The article that Zoltan Bagyon shared does speak to sandbox solutions and "customizations".

     

    Maybe it is a non-issue now.

     

    I would assume that Add-ins may have an impact.

     

    To Deleted' s point , I also assume that client side javascript that isn't calling web services would be a non-issue.

     

    • Zoltan Bagyon's avatar
      Zoltan Bagyon
      Iron Contributor
      Jan 25, 2017

      The only thing I've seen that counts against  resource quota in SPO is the previously mentioned and already deprecated sandboxed solutions, whose successors are the add-ins. But even SPO hosted add-ins have no documented impact on this (based on this article), also workflow throttling is managed by a different way.

      So correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that this is now just a legacy-setting.

      • Eric Adler's avatar
        Eric Adler
        Iron Contributor
        Jan 26, 2017

        Great info Zoltan Bagyon! I appreciate it.

         

        It is interesting that this is no longer tracked. It is the core cost for cloud technology (compute). The SharePoint farm is using these resources (clearly).

         

        I guess if I wanted to test it I could set a site collection to the entire allocation for the tenant!

         

        Thanks for all the great info!

        e

  • paulpascha's avatar
    paulpascha
    Bronze Contributor
    Jan 25, 2017

    Does resource quota still apply today anyway? As far as I know Resource Quota was there to support Sandboxed Solutions with code-behind, which are deprecated now.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Jan 25, 2017

      yep it was and i heard some people still use it with heavy JS scripts but resource quota does not work on that i thought.

  • Zoltan Bagyon's avatar
    Zoltan Bagyon
    Iron Contributor
    Jan 24, 2017

    According to this article, if you are using out of box functions mainly (which is definitely the case with sites belonging to Office 365 Groups), you can keep it on the default value.

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