Content Distribution and Load Balancing
You can spread the distribution of your content across multiple servers.
- About Content Distribution
Content distribution in SDL LiveContent Reach lets you use load balancing to horizontally scale your capacity to serve content to your users in a way that keeps the content consistent, up-to-date, and readily available. - Guidelines for Content Distribution and Load Balancing
This topic provides information you should consider when designing your content distribution model and configuration. - Preparing for Content Distribution
Preparing a server for distribution requires a special license token and some special logging configuration. - Defining a Configuration Package
Configuration packages contain the files and configuration settings that comprise the skin (look/feel and interface functionality) that you want to push to all the content delivery servers in the content distribution profile that uses this package. - Creating a Content Distribution Profile
A content distribution profile is where you define which servers are in the content delivery group, which publications the content delivery servers will have, the schedule by which the group is sent updated packages, and which package the group receives. - Configuring Content Delivery Servers for a Load Balancer
In a content distribution model, the content delivery servers must be configured to be aware of the load balancer to enable redirects and other cases when the external URL is required. - Configuring a User-Generated Content Server
In a content distribution model, you should configure one server (either an existing content delivery server or a separate server) to be the user-generated content server. - Verifying Content Distribution Status
There are various ways to view the status of content distribution (status of packages and content delivery servers).