By default, only administrators can create site collections (through either Central Administration or PowerShell). Depending on your organizational needs, this may be desirable. For organizations that require maintaining tight governance and control over how content is managed, this method may work. Some organizations, however, may benefit from allowing more dynamic provisioning of resources (such as with short-term or informal projects). This is where self-service site collection creation can help.
Planning
The self-service site collection administration functionality allows you to define a path under which new site collections are created, helping you to organize user-created structures. As we've discussed previously, site collections are atomic units of management, meaning that whoever owns the site collection will generally be responsible for administering the membership and access controls.
Self-service site creation can...