Site Management Overview

Kentico CMS allows you to manage multiple sites in a single installation. The database contains data for all websites and the websites are managed using a single administration interface (single copy of code). The following figure shows the multi-site configuration where one database and one copy of CMS code are used for multiple websites.

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When you use multi-site configuration, you can share:

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documents

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users

•	global settings and system tables

•	document types

•	page templates

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web parts

This feature is useful if you need to create multiple websites for a single company and share users/documents/settings between them.

When to choose separate installations

There are situations in which we recommend running separate instances of Kentico CMS for every website:

•	You build websites with many documents and performance is critical for you.

•	Your customers have very different requirements and you need to customize some common parts of the system, such as administration interface or structure of shared tables.

•	Your customers are very sensitive to security and you do not want to risk that some other client will get access to other websites by administrator’s mistake.

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