# Some questions about ElasticSearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 1, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-questions-about-elasticsearch/54536 "2016-07-01T13:38:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fabien\_Sarlat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@Fabien\_Sarlat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Fabien_Sarlat)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-questions-about-elasticsearch/54536/1 "2016-07-01T13:38:49Z")
Hello everyone ! I have some questions on how work ES 😁 I have for now a website, hosted on a shared server (Ovh) and i'm planning to move to a dedicated server or google app engine. My first question is, can i host my website and ES on the same server without performance problems ? Or it's better to separate them (so i will need two dedicated server). Also, our website is based in France, but we will deploy to uk and spain. Can the server host the website, with 3 different database (fr, uk, spain) and ES (working for the 3 website) without problems ? Or, again, it's better to separate the website and ES ? Second question is on how work ES. In my local environment, i build ES like this : -\> cluster -\> node-fr -\> users -\> id users (so the path is node-fr/users/1) -\> something -\> id -\> something else -\> id "node-fr/users" will contain all my french users, "node-fr/something" will contain all my french something, etc .. So when i will deploy in uk, i think on doing another node for the english users (node-uk for example). In the end, i will have a node per website in the same cluster. Do i think right ? Because if my cluster is down for x reasons, i will have no more search for all website 😅 It's better to do a cluster per website with one node ? In that way, if a cluster is down, only the search for one website won't work. But i don't know if it's useful to do one cluster with only one node. Last question : shards If i understand well, the documents are in the shards. What is the meaning of having many shards ? It's better to have one (all the documents will be inside) or more shards to equally put the documents inside ? Thanks for the brave one who read this 😀 ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-questions-about-elasticsearch/54536/2 "2016-07-01T16:47:56Z")
Hey Fabien. I [answered it in the french section](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/infrastructure-delasticsearch/54529/2) where you posted first. Nice translation effort 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-questions-about-elasticsearch/54536/3 "2017-07-05T22:38:53Z")