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All you need to know about Sitefinity’s hosting recommendations
o To ensure that your Sitefinity website performs at its optimum best, a certain set of hosting settings are required.
o These settings could differ depending on the size of your production environment and other factors.
o Let us find them out in the next slide.
A Brief Introduction
Factors determining settings of a Sitefinity websiteo Value of website to the organization
o Expected visitor traffic and peak hours of load
o Size of the website
o The expected memory and CPU usage from the apps
o SQL server statistics
Points to emphasize while using the hosting servicesGet an estimate of available resources for shared services
Request entire hardware for dedicated services
Keep in mind the price and service variations for multi-web hosting
General tips regardless of hosting planEnable both static and dynamic compression modules
Always run the application pool with Domain Account
Set time out option of application pool to 0
Set Pool recycling regular time interval to 0
General tips regardless of hosting planLet Enable 32-bit applications property settings remain at the default false mode
Remove Users and Creator Owner from ACL
Grant the application pool identity user with Read permissions and Modify for the AppData folder
Hardware Configurations for Web ServersDuo-core processor @ 2.66 GHz or higher
8 GB RAM or more
MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
Recommended hardware for database serversDuo-core processor @ 2.66 GHz or higher
8 GB RAM or more
MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
Tips for Sites on Sitefinity Standard Edition or highero Sitefinity generally recommends a setup with two web
servers in a load balanced environment in addition to a dedicated database server.
o These servers can be behind a firewall in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) while access to the backend folder of Sitefinity can be made restrictive via the IP security settings.
Tips for Sites on Sitefinity Standard Edition or highero There has to be sufficient network bandwidth for the
SQL connection between the DMZ and LAN so that the servers are not slowed by the database requests between the two networks.
o Sitefinity recommends storing the CMS website files and code base in a central location that is accessible from each web server.
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