I've notice when creating a site collection either manually, with powershell or programmatically with the API, it can take 2-3 minutes to complete. If I compare this to our on-premise SharePoint 2010 solution, we can create site collections in 30 seconds or less. Now, I can appreciate that SharePoint online is a far more complex architecture than our on-prem solution, but one would think that the complexity and performance behind SharePoint online would equate an experience the same, if not better than on-prem.
We have a custom solution around site creation/document injection to help our sales team with potential leads and deals and they have been accustomed to a 2 min or less wait time and now they are not so excited about having to wait up to 5x longer as we migrate to SharePoint online.
Anyone from MSFT that would like to chime in on why it takes 2+ minutes to create a site collection and what might be going on behind the scenes that is introducing this delay? Any hope in the future we can see this wait time improve? Curious what has been told to other customers of SharePoint online that have noticed this delay?
To anyone else in the forums who create many site collections programmatically, (perhaps on a daily basis) , do you struggle with the wait time as well with SharePoint online?
thanks.. Jeff