Clustering? Push-Publishing? Geo-load-balancing and CDNs? Scale-out or scale-up? Dotcms enables many different ways to implement multi-server architectures for performance and fault-tolerance. Learn more about these options, and how you can choose which architecture works best for your deployment

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2. Multi-Server Architectures
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3. Multi-Server Architectures
• Determining Your Needs
• dotCMS Architectures
• Enabling Technologies
• Pros and Cons
Multi-Server Architectures

4. Determining your needs
Fault Tolerance
• dotCMS
• Database
• Assets
• Scope of fault
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5. Determining your needs
Capacity Management
• Request Volume
• # of Hosts/Contentlets
• Surge flexibility
• Frontend vs Backend
Multi-Server Architectures

6. Determining your needs
Client Latency Optimization
• Geographic
• Network
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7. dotCMS Architectures
Clustering (shared database/assets)
Multi-Server Architectures

8. dotCMS Architectures
Push Publishing (shared nothing)
Multi-Server Architectures

9. dotCMS Architectures
Push Publishing (shared nothing)
Multi-Server Architectures

10. Enabling Technologies
Geographic Load Balancing
• DNS-based
• Network-based
• Latency vs. Geography
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11. Enabling Technologies
Content Distribution Networks (CDNs)
• Object-based (Push)
• Caching (Pull)
• Full vs Host Isolation
Multi-Server Architectures

12. Enabling Technologies
Content Distribution Networks (CDNs)
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13. dotCMS Clustering
• Single pane-of-glass
• Shared resources
• Low node-to-node latency
• Local topology
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14. dotCMS Clustering
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15. dotCMS Push Publishing
• Multiple panes-of-glass that converge
• Isolated resources
• Tolerates high node-to-node latency
• Remote topology
• Unidirectional content flow
• Frontend content submission requires care
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16. dotCMS Push Publishing
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17. dotCMS Push Publishing
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18. dotCMS Push Publishing
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