Once content is committed to staging, it is ready to be delivered to the live web site. What's the best way to get content out of Alfresco and onto the frontend application or web servers? There are several options to consider:
CIFS. One option is to serve the content directly out of the Staging Sandbox. The web server or application server points its document root to the Staging Sandbox via CIFS. Although people have done this in the past, it is no longer recommended.
File-level copy. Another CIFS-based approach is to copy the content from a CIFS-mounted sandbox to the web server's file system. This copy could be scheduled by a cron job or initiated manually. Alfresco's file system deployment functionality really makes this option obsolete. It addresses the many drawbacks to this approach, which include lack of transactional deployment and no integration with the web client user interface.
File System Receiver (FSR). The FSR is used for Alfresco-to-file system content deployments...