Title: Does Enterprise Plan help fix lag?
Hey everyone,
Our team is currently hitting a massive wall with Airtable performance and I’m trying to figure out if this is a pay to play problem or an architectural problem.
We’re on a Business plan. We have about 15 people using the base, currently sharing 4 seats (I know, I know) and the base has become almost unusable during peak hours.
So here are the symptoms:
* Automation Queue: During peak times, automations that should be instant are sitting in a "processing" line for up to an hour.
* Script Timeouts: Scripts that usually take 2-5 seconds are randomly hitting the 180s limit and failing during high-traffic windows.
* UI Lag: General "heaviness" when entering data or switching views.
Airtable pushes their "Enterprise Scale" and HyperDB as the solution for this, but is the "dedicated infrastructure" actually faster? Or are we just going to pay 5x the price to have the same scripts timeout on a slightly prettier dashboard?
For those who have been here:
Did moving to Enterprise/HyperDB actually solve your automation execution speeds and script timeouts?
Or did you find more success by offloading (e.g., moving scripts to Google Cloud Functions/Pipedream and using Airtable only as a UI)?
How much did "modularizing" your base (Hub and Spoke model) actually help with the peak-time congestion?
We love the flexibility, but we’re reaching the point where the no-Code dream is starting to feel like a performance nightmare. Would love to hear some war stories before we sign a massive contract or start a 6-month migration to a SQL backend.
Thanks!