Kentico CMS allows you to manage multiple sites in a single installation. The database contains data for all web sites and the web sites 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 web sites.
When you use multi-site configuration, you can share:
• | global settings and system tables |
This feature is useful if you need to create multiple web sites for a single company and share users/documents/settings between them.
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When to choose separate installations
There are situations in which we recommend running separate instances of Kentico CMS for every web site:
• | You build web sites 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 web sites by administrator’s mistake. |
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