Having multiple publishing targets becomes very important for geographic traffic distribution and redundancy. This provides better scalability, performance, and high uptime during deployments.
In this recipe, you will learn how to configure multiple publishing targets to serve live sites from multiple databases. You will also learn configuring preproduction (preview) publishing targets to evaluate a site by publishing items before they reach their final state of workflow before actually going live.
This recipe assumes that you already have a working environment with a single publishing target database.
First, we will add one publishing target to the Sitecore environment:
Take a backup of the existing web (publishing target) database and restore it to a different database server in a different geographic location. If you have the Sitecore environment in working mode, then you can freeze publishing until...