To improve the scalability and performance of Sitecore environments, we have to run multiple Sitecore instances in a cluster. In this recipe, you will learn a few configurations that are needed to be done before using multiple Sitecore instances in one or more environments such as content management (CM) and content delivery (CD).
Keep the
master
,core
, andweb
databases on a single database server or the same network as all of the web servers should be shared for all Sitecore instances. You can configure databases from the\App_Config\Include\ConnectionStrings.config
file.Store media item blobs in database; for this, you must disable file-based media. By default, it's disabled.
<setting name="Media.UploadAsFiles" value="false" />
If you have multiple CM instances, make one of the CM instances as the publishing instance. After doing this, if you initiate publishing from any CM instance, the actual publishing will...