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title: "Features and limitations"
date: "2024-09-27T06:14:40+00:00"
summary: "Discover features and limitations of Front End Hosting - Basic, including CDN integration, monitoring, and high availability configuration."
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Features
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The following are the features of Front End Hosting - Basic:

*   **Content Delivery Network (CDN) integration**
    
    Integrates with CDN using a third-party tool to distribute web content efficiently. The third-party tool is Fastly.
    
*   **Real-time monitoring and retrieval of balancer logs**
    *   Supports downloading of historical balancer server logs for offline analysis.
    *   Supports streaming of log data in real-time for live monitoring.
        
        For more information, visit [About Cloud Platform logging](https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-cloud-platform/monitor-apps/logs).
        
*   **High availability configuration**
    
    Maintains dual-replica instances across all environments to ensure high availability.
    
*   **Provisioning of three default environments**
    
    Provisions three default environments, Development (Dev), Staging (Stg), and Production (Prod) with the option to purchase additional environments.
    
*   **Automated cache clearing**
    *   Offers Varnish and CDN cache clearing post-deployment, and cache invalidation based on TTL (Time-To-Live) configurations at the CDN level through Fastly.
    *   Supports manual cache clearance.
*   **Code Studio integration**
    
    Allows customers with Code Studio subscriptions to use it for CI/CD with SSG hosting to streamline the building and deployment phases for SSG artifacts.
    

Limitations
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The following are the limitations of Front End Hosting - Basic:

*   Does not provide auto-scaling
*   Does not support artifacts exceeding 10GB
*   Does not provide Node.js runtime which means it cannot host Node.js applications, connect with a Drupal backend, or perform Server-Side Rendering (SSR) functions.
*   Limits support to Node.js versions that are currently in the Long Term Support (LTS) and maintenance phases
    
    For version compatibility, visit [Node.js Version Support Table](https://nodejs.org/en/about/previous-releases).
    
*   Supports only NPM package manager for building and installing dependencies
*   Does not have any compliance certifications, which may affect users who need to adhere to specific regulatory standards.