Presentation Server

The Presentation Server encompasses all the machines and Content Delivery software components that process content being sent to and from your SDL Tridion-driven Web site:

  • when you publish content from the Content Manager, content is sent to the presentation side where it is processed, assembled, stored, and served to Web site visitors.
  • Web site visitors interact with the content and the data collected on the Web site is synchronized back to the Content Manager.

If you look at the Presentation Server in terms of the roles that certain machines play in the architecture, you can break down the Presentation Server into the following servers:

  • Content Delivery Server—this is the machine on which Content Delivery Server Roles that facilitate the delivery of content are installed. You install the Content Delivery Server Roles as Web applications or as standalone Java or Windows Processes.
  • Presentation Server—this is the Web Application Server on which your Tridion-driven Web site is hosted. You install the Content Delivery Server Roles that implement various dynamic Content Delivery functionality as Web applications on this machine.
  • Database Server—this is the machine(s) on which your databases are installed.

The following diagram shows the Presentation Server architecture: