Scaling Out with Web Applications
SharePoint stores its data in SQL content databases but serves up access to that data via HTML and web services. The access to this data is served up to the user via the Windows Server Internet Information Services (IIS) service. IIS is composed of various logical structures known as websites, which are entry points to web content. Each website can be configured to point to various sets of information located on the web server or extended via SharePoint to be unique SharePoint web applications.
Utilizing unique web applications with SharePoint can help to further scale the functionality of an environment, allowing the flexibility to grant access to SharePoint using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption, or across ...
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