Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Creating a Site Collection

In many environments, the site collection administrator is also a farm administrator, and will need to know how to create site collections. Although some organizations use a single site collection for all of their needs, a best practice is to create separate site collections for groups that will be saving a large amount of data (50GB to 100GB or more) and creating a content database for each of those site collections. Although this is not a universal rule, by creating multiple content databases, SQL Server will be managing more databases that are smaller in size, which can be advantageous when designing disaster recovery strategies and service level agreements.

In addition, as discussed in the following sections, ...