Jive Hosted architecture

The Jive Cloud maintains both test and production environments for your site. Each Jive installation spans multiple nodes in a cluster.

Each customer installation in Jive Cloud Admin comprises a UAT (testing environment) as well as a production instance. The UAT instance is used to verify changes to your environment before launching them in production. The following table and diagrams provide an architectural overview of the environment. Depending on your contract with Jive and your site requirements, you, your partners, Jive Support, Jive Professional Services, or Jive Hosted Operations may access your UAT or production environments through Jive Cloud Admin.

Table 1. UAT and production environment specifications
UAT	Production
Deploy files directly through Jive Cloud Admin	Deploy files directly through Jive Cloud Admin or Hosted Operations staff
Clustered server environment with all web servers receiving HTTP traffic. A load balancer distributes traffic among servers.	Clustered server configuration with all web servers receiving HTTP traffic. A load balancer distributes traffic among servers.
Custom hostname. By default, it initially uses a domain similar to `example.uat5.hosted.jivesoftware.com`.	Custom hostname. By default, it initially uses a domain similar to `example.hosted.jivesoftware.com`.