{"id":4717,"date":"2020-06-08T11:36:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T06:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2025-02-25T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T10:33:33","slug":"boost-the-performance-of-your-sitefinity-cms-website-with-web-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/boost-the-performance-of-your-sitefinity-cms-website-with-web-farming","title":{"rendered":"Boost the Performance of Your Sitefinity CMS Website with Web Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/boost-the-performance-of-your-sitefinity-cms-website-with-web-farming\/#What_is_a_Web_Farm\" title=\"What is a Web Farm?\">What is a Web Farm?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/boost-the-performance-of-your-sitefinity-cms-website-with-web-farming\/#The_Benefits_of_Using_Web_farming_with_Sitefinity_CMS_Development\" title=\"The Benefits of Using Web farming with Sitefinity CMS Development:\">The Benefits of Using Web farming with Sitefinity CMS Development:<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/boost-the-performance-of-your-sitefinity-cms-website-with-web-farming\/#Scalability\" title=\"Scalability:\u00a0\">Scalability:\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/boost-the-performance-of-your-sitefinity-cms-website-with-web-farming\/#Up-time\" title=\"Up-time:\">Up-time:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/boost-the-performance-of-your-sitefinity-cms-website-with-web-farming\/#Longevity\" title=\"Longevity:\">Longevity:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/boost-the-performance-of-your-sitefinity-cms-website-with-web-farming\/#High_Security\" title=\"High Security:\">High Security:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sitefinity has always come up with the latest versions at frequent intervals, which has offered rich technology features, security patches and previous errors remedies. The CMS is highly reliable, and business owners use it to create their websites and run various operations seamlessly. Web farming Sitefinity can accomplish more and help you to improve your user experience in a better manner. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A CMS in general helps to publish, manage and control the web content of a site and today most business organizations are using a CMS to accomplish their business goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_a_Web_Farm\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>What is a Web Farm?<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0A web farm is a collection of servers that is housed in a single location, which is called a data center for functioning as a coordinated group that can be managed and controlled easily. The farm is used to accomplish the needs that a single machine cannot provide like serving a huge number of people on a website or for any specific application or for providing more resources in a cloud environment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A web farm also known as the web server farm is a web page using more than one computer or server to deliver the content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Web farming is distributed hosting and web traffic should be directed to a load balancer that relays the requests to any virtual machines in the infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Benefits_of_Using_Web_farming_with_Sitefinity_CMS_Development\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #008000;\"><strong>The Benefits of Using Web farming with Sitefinity CMS Development:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Scalability\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Scalability:\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The most prominent advantage to load balancing is the ability to add or remover the recourses on the fly. The resources are available in the virtual machine and are fixed while the users demand may fluctuate. So, when there is an excess demand and it exceeds what is available, there is a possibility that your <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/sitefinity-development\/\">Sitefinity CMS development<\/a><\/span> website may go down or not perform as expected. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">And during high traffic moments like events or conferences, these new virtual machines can handle the additional load easily. The load balancer can be easily configured to the direct traffic to the new resources in real time, so that the users don\u2019t experience any interruption in their service.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Up-time\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Up-time:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Even if your Sitefinity server works perfectly, it needs <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/sitefinity-support\/\">Sitefinity maintenance and support services<\/a><\/span>, the operating system may require to recompile your site or there may be changes needed to stop interrupting service. If your Sitefinity CMS is running without a load balancer, then all these might result in downtime and if the issue is something serious, then your site may be down for hours or even longer resulting to huge loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><a href=\"\/blog\/sitefinity-13-0-more-power-in-the-hands-of-marketers-and-publishers\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sitefinity 13.0: More Power in the Hands of Marketers and Publishers<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A load balancer is specially designed so that it can detect all the issues, direct the traffic away from the problematic virtual machine and then restore the traffic once the server is restoring and starts working.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Longevity\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Longevity:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Web farming offers a more modular approach to your Sitefinity web infrastructure and the configurations can make things easier for the older devices, so that it can be easily replaced by the new virtual machine. Some hosting options like the App Services can now be easily integrated into the infrastructure and this means that the DNS updated are reduced.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"High_Security\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">High Security:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The backend access to your Sitefinity website can easily be disabled ad with numerous instances running, you can now choose to allow the public access only to those disabled nodes and any other layer of security to the node that can easily make the changes or edits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With web farming, you can now take your Sitefinity website to a next level and boost the performance of your site.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><a href=\"\/blog\/how-sitefinity-has-effectively-evolved-to-meet-the-changing-face-of-cms\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">How Sitefinity Has Effectively Evolved To Meet the Changing Face of CMS<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitefinity has always come up with the latest versions at frequent intervals, which has offered rich technology features, security patches and previous errors remedies. 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